Wednesday, March 30, 2011

BP 10: The Camera

The object I believe represents a revolution in design is the camera. The pinhole camera was first invented around 1000 AD. From then the camera has been refined hundreds and hundreds of times. The camera changed the ways in which we saw the world. We were able to record photographs easier than ever before. Instead of taking time to paint a portrait we could just snap a shot, freezing time.

The Pinhole Camera

The polaroid camera


35mm SLR camera

DSLR camera

Above are just a few generations of the camera. Photography now doesn't seem like such a revolution, but imagine what life would be like without photographs... 

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