Film, movies and cameras have certainly evolved over the latter 100 years.  However the invention of the camera started many years prior to this.  In the 4th and 5th centuries BC it is thought that Greek and Chinese philosophers got together and where able to describe the principles surrounding the basic camera and optics.  Then Isaac Newton from the years 1664 to 1666 discovered that different colours made up the composition of white light.  A number of other philosophers theories were put together including Johann Schulze who made the discovery that silver nitrate dimmed when exposed to light.  In 1840 the first American patent is issued to Alexander Wolcott for his camera. Then in 1913/14 the first 35mm still camera developed.

Since this time there has been many cameras which have been available to buy off the shelf.  Some of the cameras are still cameras, some disposable, some movie camera and others which produce instant photo’s.  During the 1960’s and 1970’s anyone who had a movie camera was considered lucky, these movie cameras however were called cinefilms.  Cinefilm means ‘moving film’, and back in the day these cameras were seen as state of the art, to play the film you had recorded you also needed a projector, these projectors and playing the films were very fiddly, and the quality of the film was often poor, and seemed to play speeded up some how.  The Cinefilm was took over in the 1980 by the video camera, this device was easy to use, and the ability to play the movie straight from the camera to the television was a revolution in its self.

Movie cameras and still cameras have now gone that one bit further, most people have a digital camera, which not only takes stills, but takes digital movies as well.  The digital films which are produced can be put directly on to a computer to be edited in order the enhance quality.

The film and camera industry certainly has progressed beyond peoples initial expectations, this combined with the evolution of the computer has allowed the film industry to gain better effects on films which they release nowadays.  Take the film James Bond, from the days when Sean Connery first donned the little white shorts and left behind a car which had exploded, to scenes with Daniel Craig and masses of buildings exploding, boats in the sea and brilliant effects not only with the quality of the film but the sound too.