Types of Cameras for Movie Making and Stills Work

Types of cameras for movie making and still work can be found at any good camera store. If you are in the market for a movie camera you might find the following information helpful

Movie cameras are cameras that take photos, in a quick succession, on filmstrips. A still camera only takes one picture at a time; the movie camera adds multiple photos together and combines them onto film to show movement and action.

Each of these images is a frame of the film. After filming with a movie camera is complete you must have a film projector to view the photos you have on film, the movie you have made.

Movie cameras have been around since the 1800’s. In the late 19th century was created by Louis Le Prince. This antique camera can be said to have started the entire movie business. It can be viewed at the British Media Museum.

Another Englishman, William Green, also created early versions of movie cameras. He used elements of Prince’s design and created his own paper to use for film. Prince had used celluloid paper or film. The film created by Green was very similar to Prince’s but offered a better resolution.

In 1894 Skladanowsky created the Bioscope projector. This is one of the first projectors available for screening film. Skladanowsky developed his projector in conjunction with a movie camera he also developed.

At the same time in England Green was also working on creating his own projector. His completed version of an early projector can be seen in the South Kensington Museum.

1984 was also the year Charles Moisson, an employee at Lumiere, created the Lumiere Domitor movie camera. This camera used paper film which was that was originally available to them. The next year Moisson was able to purchase celluloid from America and redesigned the movie camera to use this type of film.

As the years passed more and more movie cameras were produced and the technology became more advanced. In 1911 a camera made of metal was introduced. The Bell and Howard was produced in America and used in many early Hollywood films.

In 1932 a new technology in movie cameras or Appareil photo allowed for color separation. This was the precursor to color movies.

Using light refractions and filters camera users could record color on moving film for the first time. It would be years before this type of technology found its way to wide use but without it we would not have color films today.

The history of types of cameras for movie making and stills cameras is very interesting and technology is improving everyday that advances the uses of these cameras.

Consider digital cameras and the advances in cameras you have seen in your lifetime. Can you imagine what will possible in ten or fifteen years? The possibilities are endless and exciting!