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Period: 1000 to
Pinhole Camera
Camera obscura or pinhole images are a natural optical phenomenon. Early known descriptions are found in the Chinese Mozi writings (circa 500 BC) and the Aristotelian Problems (circa 300 BC - 600 AD). Starting with Alhazen (965–1039) the effect was used in dark rooms, mostly to study the nature of light and to safely watch solar eclipses. -
Period: 1501 to
The invention of the camera
In the sixteenth century the first camera was said to be made by Leonardo Davinci. It was a box larger than a man, and was called the camerra obscura. -
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first camera ever to exist
The first partially successful photograph of a camera image was made in approximately 1816 by Nicéphore Niépce, using a very small camera of his own making and a piece of paper coated with silver chloride, which darkened where it was exposed to light. -
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First ever photograph ever taken
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. The image depicts the view from an upstairs window at Niépce's estate, Le Gras, in the Burgundy region of France. -
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Zoom lens
Called Optical Telescopes in the past they were introduced to the royal society in 1834. -
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War Photography
It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography. The metal-based daguerreotype process soon had some competition from the paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes invented by William Henry Fox Talbot. -
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When photography was introduced to the public
It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography. The metal-based daguerreotype process soon had some competition from the paper-based calotype negative and salt print processes invented by William Henry Fox Talbot. -
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Calotype
Calotype or talbotype is an early photographic process introduced in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot, using paper coated with silver iodide. The term calotype comes from the Greek καλός (kalos), "beautiful", and τύπος (tupos), "impression". -
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first photograph with colour
Many additive color screen products were available between the 1890s and the 1950s, but none, with the possible exception of Dufaycolor, introduced as film for still photography in 1935, was as popular or successful as the Lumière Autochrome. 1861 - James Clerk Maxwell presents a projected additive color image of a multicolored ribbon, the first demonstration of color photography by the three-color method he suggested in 1855. -
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Kodak
This was the the first ever camera to be made public and it could take up to 100 pictures.
George Eastman was born on July 12, 1854, in Waterville, New York. In 1880, he opened the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company. His first camera, the Kodak, was sold in 1888 and consisted of a box camera with 100 exposures -
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When Photography became worldwide.
Although methods for developing color photos were available as early as 1861, they did not become widely available until the 1940s or 1950s, and even so, until the 1960s most photographs were taken in black and white. -
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Polaroid Camera
The invention of commercially viable instant cameras which were easy to use is generally credited to American scientist Edwin Land, who unveiled the first commercial instant camera, the model 95 Land Camera, in 1948, a year after unveiling instant film in New York City. -
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Nikon
in 1948, the first Nikon-branded camera was released, the Nikon I. Nikon lenses were popularised by the American photojournalist David Douglas Duncan. Duncan was working in Tokyo when the Korean War began. Duncan had met a young Japanese photographer, Jun Miki, who introduced Duncan to Nikon lenses -
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Dycam Model 1
The Dycam Model 1, also known as the Logitech Photoman, was an early greyscale digital camera from 1990 or 1991. It was designed by Dycam. -
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Canon
Canon releases the EOS D30 with a 3.25 megapixel CMOS image sensor and a RGB color filter. This camera was characterized by a small and light body and had a fully automatic mode that made it appealing to consumers and helped expand the non-professional use of digital SLR’s. -
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9/11 photography
Photography of the tragic incident that happened on September 11th was something photographers took plenty of photographs of for the newspapers.