Camera Collection (#88)

Digital camera and memory card

Screen on a digital camera
Digital camera. Close-up of the screen of a digital camera showing a picture of cyclists

Louis Daguerre, photography inventor
Louis Daguerre. Illustration of the French inventor of practical photography, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre (1789-1851), at work

Polarising camera filter

Photographic film
35mm photographic film

FIVES contamination detection system. The Fluorescence Interaction Video Exposure System (FIVES) is designed to detect contamination of environmental workers by using fluorescent dye as a tracer

Kinegraphe camera, 19th century
Kinegraphe camera. Photographer operating a Kinegraphe, an early French camera, the design of which first appeared in the late 1880s

Bourdin camera, 19th century
Bourdin camera. Woman using a viewfinder while operating an early French camera (Bourdin model). Several early camera designs were produced by the French photographer

Nicephore Niepce, French inventor
Nicephore Niepce (1765-1833), one of the French inventors of photography. Niepce developed a process he called heliography in the 1820s

Old style bellow camera with Meyer Gorlitz lens

X-ray of a digital camera and iPod
X-ray photography of digital camera and iPod music device

X-ray of a digital camera
X-ray photography of digital cameras

COROT satellite, artwork

Marss Gale Crater from space
NASAs next Mars rover, the Curiosity Rover, will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planets Gale Crater, caused by an asteroid impact millions of years ago

Magnesium camera flash, 19th century
Magnesium camera flash, 19th-century artwork. Magnesium is a highly reactive metal, burning in air with a bright flame. In both wire and powder form

Underwater photography, 19th century
Underwater photography, 19th-century artwork. French zoologist Louis Boutan (1859-1934) taking an underwater photograph in 1893. He is in a diving suit holding his camera

Research Microscope computer artwork
The optical microscope, often referred to as the " light microscope", is a type of microscope which uses visible light and a system of lenses to magnify images of small samples

Launch of Bhaskara-2 satellite
Launch of Bhaskara-2. A Cosmos-3M rocket blasts off from Kapustin Yar in Russia, carrying the Bhaskara-2 satellite. Bhaskara-2 was Indias second Earth observation satellite

Satellite tracking camera
Satellite tracking. The KST-50 camera of the Zvenigorod Observatory. This is a 45-cm aperture telescope used to monitor man-made satellites in earth orbit

Printed circuit, macrophotograph
Photomacrograph (30x) of a printed circuit on a flexible material. A printed circuit consists of lines (light orange) of a metal conductor printed on an insulating material base

Aperture flare. Close-up of the bladed aperture of a camera lens, demonstrating the phenomenon of aperture flare. The blades of the aperture ring open

Genetics of vision, conceptual artwork
Genetics of vision. Conceptual artwork of an eye (right), strands of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA, far right and centre left), binary code (across bottom) and part of a digital camera (centre)

Speeding down a country road
Photograph made from a speeding car with an exposure time of approximately 5 seconds. Objects closer to the camera change their position more quickly and therefore appear more blurred

TIROS weather satellite, artwork
TIROS or Television (Vidicom Camera) Infrared Observation Satellite is a series of early weather satellites launched by NASA, beginning with TIROS 1 in 1960

TIROS weather satellite image
TIROS Earth View of the United States and cloud-covered Mexico. TIROS or Television (Vidicom Camera) Infrared Observation Satellite is a series of early weather satellites launched by NASA

35mm photographic colour slide film canister

Photographic colour slide film. Medium format roll film (left) and a 35mm film canister (right)

Large format sheet film holder. Holder for 5x4 inch large format photographic film (not seen). A single sheet of film is stored in the holder, which is attached to the back of the camera

Toy robot, artwork
Toy robot, computer artwork. This robot has a humanoid body plan, but with tracked wheels instead of legs, and a single camera-eye instead of a head

Camera lens

Infrared camera, temperature monitor
An infrared camera used to monitor the temperature of people entering a conference centre in Daejeon, South Korea. A prophylactic measure against carriers of flu viruses, such as the H1N1 virus

BASEBALL: CAMERA, c1911. Herman A. Germany Schaefer, baseball player for the Washington Senators, using a camera, New York. Photograph, c1911

TALBOTYPE, 1845. A Talbotype photograph taken in 1845 showing Fox Talbots printing establishment at Reading, England

Young woman taking photograph of the Monumental Head, by Igor Mitora, Boboli Gardens, Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

PHOTOGRAPHY STUDIO, c1878. Wedding Party at a Photographers Studio. Oil on canvas, 1878-9, by Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret

BICYCLE CAMERA AD, 1887. American newspaper advertisement for a bicycle camera, 1887

ATLANTIC CITY: BEACH. A photographer on a crowded beach taking a picture of a group of three people with a donkey (including a woman with a sign saying I could stay in Atlantic City forever)

CHARLIE CHAPLIN (1889-1977). Charles Spencer Chaplin. English film actor, director, and comedian. Chaplin photographed on location during the shooting of his film The Gold Rush, 1925

BASEBALL PLAYERS, 1920s. Al Schacht and Nick Altrock of the Washington Senators clowning around before a camera, 1920s

SILENT FILM SET, c1925. Actor Harold Lockwood (holding baseball) and director Fred Balshofer on the set of a silent film, c1925

FILM: UNDERWORLD, 1927. Filming a scene for the gangster movie, directed by Joseph von Sternberg in 1927, the cameraman has armored himself against the blast as he films Evelyn Brent fleeing

FILM CAMERA WAGON, 1898. Billy Bitzer, who later became D. W. Griffiths cameraman
FILM CAMERA WAGON, 1898. Billy Bitzer, who later became D.W. Griffiths cameraman, with the camera in the Biograph Pictures camera wagon. Biograph produced movies to be shown at the Keith Theaters

FILMING ON LOCATION, 1923. Director James Cruze, in checkered jacket, crew and actors ready to film a scene in Utah for The Covered Wagon, 1923

THE IRON HORSE, 1924. The joining of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, 10 May 1869. Scene from the silent film The Iron Horse directed by John Ford, 1924

D. W. GRIFFITH (1875-1948). American film producer and director. Griffith, right
D.W. GRIFFITH (1875-1948). American film producer and director. Griffith, right, and his cameraman Billy Bitzer filming a scene with the actor Henry B. Walthall, c1910-1915

MYRTLE LIND (1901-1966). American actress, holding a Graflex camera on a beach, c1919

MARY PICKFORD (1893-1979). Born Gladys Mary Smith. American actress, with a movie camera on a beach, c1916

BUSN2A-00243
Traveling photographer taking a picture of farmers in their field, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century A.B. Frost illustration

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"Capturing Moments: The Camera's Timeless Lens" In the world of fashion, Gabrielle Coco Chanel once said, "The best things in life are free. The second-best are very expensive. " And indeed, one of those precious treasures is a camera. It holds the power to freeze time and immortalize memories that would otherwise fade away. Just like Sugar Ray Robinson during a fierce boxing match, cameras capture every intense moment with precision and clarity. They become our ringside companions, allowing us to relive the adrenaline-filled seventh round over and over again. From the Guinness Trust Buildings in Walworth to the bustling streets of London, cameras have witnessed history unfold before their lenses. They've seen photographic enlargers bring images to life and watched as Karel Reisz and Walter Lassally filmed We Are The Lambeth Boys back in 1959. Cameras have no boundaries when it comes to curiosity. Even on distant planets like Mars, they accompany rovers like Curiosity, capturing breathtaking artwork-like landscapes that ignite our imagination. Through their lens, cameras transcend time and culture. From samurais in 19th-century Japan to iconic figures like Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy in Swiss Miss (1938), they document diverse stories that shape our understanding of humanity. But cameras aren't just observers; they empower us all by putting creativity into our hands. With them, we can be artists or storytellers—unleashing our inner visionaries onto film or digital screens for all to see. They even reveal what lies beneath our skin - X-ray machines equipped with powerful lenses enable doctors to diagnose ailments hidden from plain sight—a testament to how technology has revolutionized healthcare. Cameras take flight too. Aerial photography soared high above cities since 1919 when AFL03_aerofilms_c12930 captured stunning bird's-eye views that forever changed how we perceive urban landscapes. And let's not forget about the adverts that entice us to embrace the world of photography.