Different types of Cameras

1.SLR 35mm Camera: the most common type of camera, this is probably the one that you have in your house if you have a camera. Doesn’t do any fancy things to the film and gives you a clear negative of your photo. the SLR also gives you the ability to use different lenses, further controlling your ability to alter the photo. lenses that the SLR supports includes the fish-eye lens and lomo cameras and many others that can ultimately change your photo entirely.

2. Pinhole Camera: the pinhole gives you a very beautiful, soft, photo. because it is such an old technique. The pinhole camera also  manipulates the photo to some extent, making every single photo you take  look completely different from the next because of the multiple  uncertainties that take place while taking a pinhole photograph. you don’t have very much control over the photograph besides where you place the camera and how long you  expose it for, so every time you take a new photo its exciting to see how it turned out

3. Holga and Diana Cameras: tiny little cameras that give you flawed yet beautiful prints. My personal favorite types, they alter your photo just enough to give you mystic and excitement every time you take a photo, wondering how its going to make it different. Holga and Diana typically use a film size (120mm) that is generally more expensive and harder to find then the normal 35mm, but there are ways to convert your cameras into 35mm ones if that is really what you need or want.

4. Polaroid Camera: a dieing art, the Polaroid is the instant picture. just seconds after you take the photo, it will appear in great detail on the paper, giving you the ability to manipulate the photo in whichever way you want before it is finished printing. Polaroid cameras are also commonly turned into pinhole Polaroids, which give them a nice soft focus and are generally softer then most other types of photos. though the Polaroid  is no longer being produced, there are still ways to get the paper you need to make a photo.

History of Photography

Photography was first a way of reflecting images in a camera obscura box (literally meaning “dark chamber”) to draw images onto paper. One could turn their own room into a camera by making sure the whole room was pitch black and tightly shut and then putting a pin-prick hole next to a window, the light would then bounce back into the room on the opposite wall, reflecting the outside image upside-down. It wasn’t until 1826 would a photo be saved by a man named Joseph Nicephore Niepce.

First perminate photo, by Niecpe

Niepce used a method involving Bitumen of Judea which is a petroleum derivative that hardens in light. He would take a polished pewter plate, submerse it in the bitumen, wash it away after the print was made, leaving a negative image in which he slathered ink on top of and printed it on a piece of paper.

After his success with the Bitumen, he decided to work on developing a way to print using a silver compound with his partner Louis Deguerre. This silver compound was first developed by Johann Heinrich Schultz in 1724, and concluded that a silver and chalk mixture darkened when in light, but the photo wouldn’t last for very long. It was Louis Deguerre though who refined this technique, making it so the image would stay on the paper. He found that if he first exposed the silver to iodine vapor before the exposure to light, and then mercury fumes after the photo was taken, then he would be able to make a latent (or invisible) image that could latter be fixed after being in a bath of salt water. This process was completed in 1839 and would become to be known as the daguerreotype, forever paving the way photos were made.

Fox Talbolt, after reading about the daguerreotype, then began to work on a way to improve it and in the same year he made another key discovery. He got the idea from the astronomer John Herschel that sodium thiosulfate would be an effective fixer (the chemical that keeps the print on the negative)

to be continued….

Hello

Welcome to my 35mm photography blog. I am a Junior in high school with a passion for 35mm and pinhole photography and have been taking photos for a while now. In this blog I will hopefully guide you throughout the dieing art of 35mm and pinhole photography. I will not only teach you the inner workings of the camera but how to use it to its full advantage, how to develope, print, and even make your own pinhole cameras. I will also post photos of professional and amateur photographers throughout time to give you a better understanding of how beautiful photography can really be. If you have any questions about myself, the phtographic process, or photography its self, please feel free to contact me.