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The Camera Obscura is a 18th century device used by artist to ake quick sketches in a field. "Camera Obscura" means "dark room" and the camera was made in a box shape with a pinhole which would reflect the image onto a wall upside down, the artists would then sketch the image.
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The daguerroetype process becomes more popular, leading to pictures such as this one, taken around 1850
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In 1847, early pioneer Thomas Easterly makes a daguerreotype of a bolt of lightning-the final picture to capture this natural element.
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James Clerk Maxwell creates a colour image superimposing onto a single screen, Three images were passed through three filters- red, green and blue. His multi colored ribbon is the first to prove the efficacy of the three coloured method.
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Eadweard Muybridge began taking photograph sequences that capture animals and humans in motion.
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Taken by an unknown photographer, this image is thought ot be the oldest exisiting photo of a tornado
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National Geographic national publishes its first stand alone photographic series in 1905. The piece, a photographic tour of Lhasa, Tibet, runs in the January 1905 issue and fills 11 pages.
Magazine editor Gilbert H. Grosvenor thought he would be fired by the pictorial but unexpectedly he was congratulated. -
The dome room in New Mexico's Carlsbad Cavern marked the first underground color photograph ever shot.
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Ichthyologist William Longley and photographer Charles Martin use an autochrome camera and a raft full of explosive magnesium flah powder to illuminate the shallows of Florida's Dry Tortugas and make the first underwater colour photograph.
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Dr. Harold Edgerton works with nationla geographic to perfect high-speed stroboscopic photography , freezing on film the rapid movements of nature that elude the eye.
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Taken by Lunar Orbiter the image reveals the first view of Earth from the moon. Shot from a distance of about 236,000 miles.
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Steven Sasson finishes work on the worlds first digital camera. The device, about the size of a toaster, uses a new electronic sensor called a charged coupled device, or CCD, or a recording cassette.
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Photographer Emroy Kristof accompanies ocean photographer Robert Ballard on a mission to discover the wreckage of the titanic. National Geographic publishes a major package on the discovery in its december 1985 issue.
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In February 1990, Adobe systems released its first photo editing software package, Photoshop 1.0
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Japanese electronics firm sharp introduces its J-Sh04, or J-phone, the first mobile phone to feature an integrated image sensor for taking digital photos.
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In October 2010, Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Streiger launched instagram. It is an online photo sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them and share them with everyone.
