In the 1840's/50's camera's started to become widely available to the public as industrial capitalism made middle class professionals and the rapid growth of cities meant rapid growth of ideas and more people to enjoy the privilege of photography. The public began to shift from country to city in the desire to create a personal identity and be recognized as an individual. Expansion of western powers reached asia, africa and latin america spreading the fast growing technology.
This meant that more of the public began to access to camera's to take up photography. Here are some examples or early camera's and developments:
Magic lanterns:
A simple form of image projector used for showing photographic slides.
View master:
Special format steroscope creates 3D images by pairing two coloured photographs together. These images were mainly landscape as people in the 1940's couldn't really afford to travel and personally see the world.
Kodak box camera:
1888 first successful camera to become available to the public for a reasonable price using roll film.
leica SLR:
First 35mm slr camera which was intended for long journey's as the camera was compacts and easy to take traveling.
Mick-a-matic:
This was a small camera which was intentionally designed to be aimed at children involving people of all ages into the hobby or profession of photography.




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