High Speed Cameras today are all from camera obscura derived in the 16th Century. The first form of camera was a dark room with a small hole in a wall. Light into the room through a hole and projects an inverted image of the object on the opposite wall. More than three centuries to replace the camera obscura, a field in the hand with a hole and an angled mirror behind it. The mirror reflects an image on a screen of frosted glass at the top of the box. In the past the artists of the film was invented to use this device to look closer at the development. Put some tissue paper on the screen and can easily draw the reflected image.
During 19th Century the inventors of photography from the darkroom by a device adapted for holding sensitizized plates behind the box. This type of high speed camera that was with some improvements in the 19 Century uses. A significant improvement of the table sides with folds of skin called the bellows, when the photographer simply the distance between the image plane and the lens. Professional photographers are similar to using a high speed camera today, a large-format camera like the camera views known.
During 1880s, the invention of the other emulsions more sensitive and better lenses led to the development of gaskets, equipment, could limit the exposure time to a fraction of a second. Originally, the closure was only a curtain fell on the lens by gravity or a spring. Next designs as a series of panels just behind the optics of the lens. In 1888, Kodak's first camera with a cylindrical lock, the photographer again pull the rope in front of the camera. Kodak was the first hand-held devices.Photography is for fans for the first time and once in the late 20th Century created.