The Camera The camera is defined as an apparatus for taking photographs or film or television pictures. It is a lightproof box through which an image is focused and recorded on film. Today there are many different types of cameras in use, all of them more or less advanced versions of the first camera. Nearly all of them are made up of the same basic parts: -A body (the lightproof box) -A lens and a …showed first 75 words of 875 total…

…showed last 75 words of 875 total…. J. Marey built the first motion picture camera in 1887. Two years later Thomas Edison invented the first successful camera. However, cinematography was not accessible to amateurs until 1923, when Eastman Kodak produced the first 16-mm reversal safety film, and Bell & Howell introduced cameras and projectors that use 16-mm reversal safety film. Systems using 8-mm film were introduced in 1923 and larger frame sizes appeared in 1965. Bibliography The Encyclopedia of Photography (1971); The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography (1972).