Evolution Of Photography Essay

The Evolution of Photography

Technology field is constantly changing, always improving and a never ending cycle, Photographic technology is no exception. The industry is always popping out new cameras, lenses, software and any type of gadget that could help photographers further their career. The past 20 or so years have been the most influential in photography's history. Kicking off the new century cannon a well known name in the photography industry with the the first affordable DSLR camera available in 2000. For most people the newest and biggest tend to follow was digital, all made available by Canon’s release of the D30 (Bourne). With Fujifilm following suit not long after with the FinePix S1 Pro and Nikon quick to not be left behind came out with the Nikon D-1, the first DSLR not based on previous SLR models, “let photographers use the same lenses from their film cameras on their

In November of the early 2000s the world saw the first camera phone Sharp’s J-SH04 available only in Japan, “It had a resolution of 0.11 mega pixel CMOS and a 256 – colour display. The phone weighed 74g and had dimensions of 127 × 39 × 17 mm respectively. It was also one of the first phones in the world to be “modern” alike and was succeeded by the J-SH05 flip phone, which was released just after a month,” (Sharp J-SH04: World’s First Ever Phone With Integrated Camera).

However weird it seemed at the time to combine a phone with a camera it was the coolest thing since sliced bread. Soon everyone was coming out with camera phones but it was small potatoes compared to Steve Jobs’ iPhone. Coming out in 2007 the iPhone completely revolutionize the camera phone, “the original iPhone, based on the P2 device of the Project Experience Purple team, had a 3.5-inch LCD screen at 320x480 and 163 ppi, a quad-band 2G EDGE data radio, 802.11b.g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.0 EDR, and a 2 megapixel figure