Photography equipment

300px|thumb|right|Leica Camera|Leica camera (1950s) 300px|thumb|right|Hasselblad 500 C/M with Zeiss lens A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. As a pivotal technology in the fields of photography and videography, cameras have played a significant role in the progression of visual arts, media, entertainment, surveillance, and scientific research. The invention of the camera dates back to the 19th century and has since evolved with advancements

sheet of plastic coated with light-sensitive chemicals

thumb|An example of a tripod design easel with an inclining mechanism built in.|alt=Wooden easel standing in empty room. thumb|Brisbane Technical College Signwriting class, ca. 1900

optics and photography

photograph in which the tones or colors are reversed from their appearance in nature, usually on a transparent support of celluloid, acetate, or on paper, intended for the purpose of producing positive prints

thumb|300px|Old Zeiss (company)|Zeiss pocket stereoscope with original test image right|thumb|A common Underwood & Underwood Stereoscope

A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for supporting the weight and maintaining the stability of some other object. The three-legged (triangular stance) design provides good stability against gravitational loads as well as horizontal shear forces, and better leverage for resisting tipping over due to lateral forces can be achieved by spreading the legs away from the vertical centre. Variations with one, two, and four legs are termed monopod, bipod, and quadripod (similar to a table).

light meter used in photography

Steadicam is a brand of camera stabilizer mounts for motion picture cameras invented by Garrett Brown and introduced in 1975 by Cinema Products Corporation. The Steadicam brand was acquired by Tiffen in 2000. It was designed to isolate the camera from the camera operator's movement, keeping the camera motion separate and controllable by a skilled operator.

An autofocus (AF) optical system uses a sensor, a control system and a motor to focus on an automatically or manually selected point or area. An electronic rangefinder has a display instead of the motor; the adjustment of the optical system has to be done manually until indication. Autofocus methods are distinguished as active, passive or hybrid types.

target medium in photography

photography equipment

300px|thumb|right|A darkroom in Union City High School (New Jersey)|Union City High School, which is adjacent to the school's photography classroom thumb|right|In the darkroom

thumb| Miniature Speed Graphic, early 1940s, 2¼ × 3¼ inch format, with focal plane shutter and four different viewfinding means: a spring back with ground glass under a flip-up cover, simple optical viewfinder on top, Kalart rangefinder on side, and sports finder consisting of flip-up wire at lensboard and flip-up peepsight on top

vending machine or modern kiosk that contains an automated, usually coin-operated, camera and film processor

thumb|upright=1.4|Scheme of a photographic enlarger

thumb|right|300px|A pentaprism. right|thumb|300px|A perspective drawing showing a roof pentaprism commonly used in a single lens reflex camera (SLR). The image is flipped laterally by the prism. A pentaprism is a five-sided reflecting prism used to deviate a beam of light by a constant 90°, even if the entry beam is not at 90° to the prism. The beam reflects inside the prism twice, allowing the transmission of an image through a right angle without inverting it (that is, without changing the image's handedness) as an ordinary right-angle prism or mirror would.

paper coated with a light-sensitive chemical formula, used for making photographic prints

camera accessory consisting of an optical filter

thumb|200px|Camera and telephoto lens mounted on monopod thumb|100px|Monopod collapsed A monopod, also called a unipod, is a single staff or pole used to help support cameras, binoculars, rifles or other precision instruments in the field.

photographic equipment

tripod used for holding cameras

place or organisation that undertakes professional-quality photography

camera feature that permits light metering through the taking lens itself, rather than via a separate window

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digital camera design standard

tool for macro photography

A lightbox is most commonly a translucent surface illuminated from behind, used for situations where a shape laid upon the surface needs to be seen with high contrast. A lightbox is also a blocked-off area of an overhanging roof, as over an extended eve, added to allow light to pass through.

thumb|Two softboxes thumb|upright|Outdoor portrait photography with a softbox thumb|Photograph of fruit with (top) and without (bottom) softbox lighting

View-Master is the trademark name of a line of special-format stereoscopes and corresponding View-Master "reels", which are thin cardboard disks containing seven Stereoscopic 3-D pairs of small transparent color photographs on film. It was originally manufactured and sold by Sawyer's.

device used to focus light using diffraction

property of a lens mount system

digital camera design standard

camera parts, features and technologies

reflective surface used to redirect light towards a given subject or scene, used in photography and astronomy

thumb|Fixed safelight in darkroom. thumb|An amber (light brown) safelight for use with certain black-and-white photographic papers

structural panel made of three layers

a viewfinder where the image captured by the lens

pattern placed in front of a light source

shutter technique on cameras

right|thumb|300px|Hurter & Driffield's actinograph right|thumb|300px|Description of R. Hunt's actinograph

thumb|J.P. Seeburg B-2 Intervalometer

any type of spool-wound photographic film protected from white light exposure by a paper backing, as opposed to film which is protected from exposure and wound forward in a cartridge

thumb|upright|A photographic loupe for examining film and prints A loupe ( ) is a simple, small magnification device used to see small details more closely. They generally have higher magnification than a magnifying glass, and are designed to be held or worn close to the eye. A loupe does not have an attached handle, and its focusing lens(es) are contained in an opaque cylinder or cone. On some loupes this cylinder folds into an enclosing housing that protects the lenses when not in use.

specialized digital signal processor used for image processing

physical catalog of color samples and their identifiers

reflectance reference used in photography

light-tight container used for developing film

item film equipment

Lowepro is a brand of carrying bags for cameras, laptops, imaging accessories and portable consumer electronics with corporate headquarters in Petaluma, California. It is part of Videndum plc.

camera parts, features and technologies

base material for photographic emulsions

material that diffuses or scatters light, producing soft light

Photography equipment

thumb|A 2008 beta GigaPan unit with a camera GigaPan Systems is a global, privately held technology company that provides hardware, software, and services to create and share high-resolution, interactive gigapixel panoramic images. The company is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

A Prontor-Compur connection (also known as a PC connector, PC terminal, or PC socket) is a standard electrical connector (as defined in ISO 519) used in photography to synchronize the shutter to the flash.

device with an electronic image sensor that attaches to the back of a film camera

thumb|Carlo Ponti's Megalethoscope The megalethoscope is a larger version (mega-) of the alethoscope, (Italian: alethoscopio, from the Greek “true”, “exact” and “vision”) which it largely superseded, and both are instruments for viewing single photographs with a lens to enlarge and to create some illusion of three-dimensionality. They were used to view photographic albumen prints that were coloured, perforated and mounted on a curved frame. Night effects were achieved when viewing pictures in transmitted light from a fitted oil or kerosine lamp and a daytime version of the same scene was seen

device for looking at film transparencies

delay between triggering the shutter and when the photograph is actually recorded