Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd be kind and copy and paste the whole article in this post but you'd miss out on all the photos, and there are a bunch. https://medium.com/people-gadgets/bbae2adcadc6 It starts like this: Ever since the camera was, first really discovered and then later invented it?s been a process of great evolution but never really deviating from it?s most basic design???kind of like a drill???it still works the same way it did when it was invented, but a drill you get today is a lot more useful than one made in the 1920s. The principles of light that make a camera possible were discovered as least as far back as the ancient Greeks who found that if you poked a hole in the wall of a dark room, whatever?s outside would be projected on the opposite wall. It wasn't terribly useful because you could always open a window and see what was out there much more clearly (and not upside down), but it was the discovery that got people thinking ?how can we make a record of what?s projected on this wall?? Eventually in the 1800s Niepce and Daguerre figured out how to record these images chemically but the cameras were slow and they were huge and during the American Civil War if you were a photographer you needed to travel around in a wagon full of junk just to make photos. Cameras kept getting smaller and by the 1940s they were pretty portable, and by the 1950s they were very portable and this is probably where the modern ?photo gadget age? began. Essentially, what you?re carrying around today is what they were carrying around then???one big exception being that there?s no film. Another of the really big differences is that the extra stuff has really, really gotten better. There are all sorts of lenses and lights and attachments that didn't exist in the 1950s that are available today. So you basically have a camera, and then you start needing all this stuff because each little bit of stuff gives you more options when you're out in the field. And eventually, you're traveling with maybe 30 pounds of gear when you go on the road. And that?s what I typically do, I'm a nomadic photographer, I get on an airplane, I go somewhere where I may or may not have someone helping me, but more often than not, whatever I pack in is what I'm carrying with me all the time. the rest of the article, and some micro four thirds photos here: https://medium.com/people-gadgets/bbae2adcadc6