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In the 1400's, an inverted image could be projected onto a dark, flat surface. It was documented that putting the lense in the hole would produce a nicer image. This technology, called "Camera Obscura" , was used to sketch more quickly and ease the depth perception. You could project the image onto a peice of paper in a dark area and the artist would trace outlines of the projected image.
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DATE ABOVE IS NOT DEFINATE( between 1400 - 1800) : The second know element of a working camera was the existance of materials capable of permanent change when exposed to any light.
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Daniello Barbaro fitted the camera obscura with a lens and a changeable opening to sharpen the image that was projected.
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DAY & MONTH ARE NOT EXACT: Early in the 1800's the knowledge of both elements of working cameras were combined. Now called a Daguerrotype image made a huge impact on the world when it was announced in 1839. There were still a few problems to work out though.
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EXACT DATE IS NOT DEFINATE: A new discovery was being made that latent images in reverse color were a lot less time consuming. Paper negatives were washed , chemically treated and used to make positive prints.
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DAY AND MONTH ARE NOT EXACT: These two men recorded by contact printing, on paper coated with silver nitrate or silver chloride, silhouettes and images of paintings made upon glass. They were unable to make these prints permanent.
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Sir John Herschel used sodium thiosulfate, or hypo, to make pictures permanent.
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MONTH & DAY NOT EXACT: In the late 1800s, a man named George Eastman invented the idea of converting the preprocessed plate into rolls of sheets that were mounted on a roll holder inside of the camera. Continuous pictures could be taken and when the role was full it was brought back for processing!
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"James Clerk Maxwell reproduced a coloured ribbon by the three color additive process."
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DAY & MONTH NOT DEFINATE: By this time, the wet developing process gave way to a new innovation called the gelatin dry plate. Chemicals were not needed anymore on site. Treated plates could be taken out to the field, exposed, and brought back to a dark room for later processing
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DATE AND MONTH NOT EXACT: "Eadweard Muybridge first made serial photographs of moving animals and people Later, he projected them, showing motion."
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DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Thomas Edison made the FIRST motion picture avalible on a 35 mm roll film made by the Eastman company.
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DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Electric flash was invented!
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MONTH & DAY NOT EXACT: Edwin H. Land was first to introduce the polaroid camera. It was able to process black and white photographs within a minute!
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MONTH AND DAY NOT EXACT: Edwin H. Land introduced the COOUR polaroid cameras. The development of these photos only took 50 seconds!
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EXACT DAY & MONTH NOT EXACT: Elsa Dorfman starts to make pictures with the 20x24" Polaroid.
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DAY AND MONTH NOT EXACT: Kodak introduced the disk camera.
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EXACT DAY AND MONTH NOT DEFINITE: The Canon EOS camera introduced !
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DAY AND MONTH NOT EXACT: Kodak first SLR camera.
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First camera phone invented by Sharp/J-Phone in Japan
