Camera
Benefits
Paper, writing, and the printing press have all allowed us to study history and preserve knowledge, but things would have been very different without photographs. One thing that a camera does best is stop time and make an event more easily remembered by future generations.
Some people learn by hearing, others by writing, some by seeing. The camera has added a new dimension to education, allowing photographs and video to become learning tools. Imagine a medical school textbook without photographs. Learning takes on a whole new dimension when a student can visualize the medium. “Photography inaugurated an age where most of what we know about the universe comes from images, not firsthand encounter,”
Negative Impact
Hidden Camera: Incidents involving cameras in Airbnb listings seem to be growing increasingly common. There have been a number of publicized cases of hidden cameras in rentals, including a Toronto couple who found a camera hidden in an alarm clock pointed at the bed and Airbnb has faced legal action over the issue. More than 30,000 cases of filming with the use of hidden cameras were reported to police in South Korea between 2013 and 2018.
Invention History
The development of the camera from the age of a room-size box to what it is currently has taken a lot of effort, trial, and error and has involved several people in the process. Johann Zahn designed the first portable camera in 1685, but he made little progress in its development. It was not until 1814 that Joseph Nicephore Niepce clicked the first photograph. Therefore, the credit for the invention of the first camera is co-shared between Johann Zahn and Joseph Nicephore Niepce.
The photo taken by Nicephore was not permanent. He made it on paper coated with silver chloride. The regions that were not exposed to light on the paper became dark. Louis Daguerre is credited for inventing the first-ever practical photography in 1829. It took Daguerre over a decade to develop an effective method for photography. All the progress Daguerre made was in partnership with the Nicephore and the ownership rights sold to the French Government, which in turn took the responsibility of developing daquerreo-type studios in different parts of the country.
Alexander Walcott invented the first camera that produced photos that did not fade quickly. The first film cameras were introduced in the late 19th Century by George Eastman and his newly formed Kodak Company. From there, the first mass-marketed camera – the Brownie – made its way onto store shelves in the 1960s. In the early 1990s, the first digital cameras were introduced. In 2000, the first camera phone, a Sharp J-SHO04 J-Phone model, was sold in Japan.
