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The First Photograph, or more specifically, the earliest known surviving photograph made in a camera, was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 or 1827. It was tawen in 8 hours exposure time
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Niepce and Daquerre improved the short exposure time.
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Was the first publicly announced photographic process and the first to come into widespread use. It was invented by Louis Daguerre, who named it after himself.
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It was introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide.
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Maxwell created the image of the tartan ribbon shown here by photographing it three times through red, blue, and yellow filters, then recombining the images into one color composite.
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It was a strip or sheet of transparent plastic film base coated on one side with a gelatin emulsion containing microscopically small light-sensitive silver halide crystals.
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Oskar Barnack built his prototype 35 mm camera around 1913, though further development was delayed for several years by World War I.
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Paul Vierkötter used the same principle in 1925, when he ignited magnesium electronically in a glass globe. In 1929 the Vacublitz, the first true flashbulb made from aluminum foil sealed in oxygen.
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Kodachrome is a brand name for a non-substantive, color reversal film introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was one of the first successful color materials and was used for both cinematography and still photography.
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Edwin Land, the founder of Polaroid Corporation, demonstrated instant photography to the Optical Society of America.
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Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak invented and built the first electronic camera using a charge-coupled device image sensor in 1984.
