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Camera Obsecura Latin for "dark room". Consisted of a box/room with a hole in one side. Joseph Niepce takes first photographic image with camera obscura but the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded.
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Joseph Nicéphore Niépce camera obscura to develop a permanent image: metal plate, adding Bitumen (petroleum) and dissolving it in white petroleum. hardens with exposure to light & unhardened parts wash away and the metal plate is left with an image.
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Louis Daguerre expiremented with photo - image developed
The mercury vapour from a broken thermometer
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Eadweard Muybridge, working with an engineer, created a sequence of 24 images of a running horse, taken by 24 cameras. Later on these photographs were being projected by a device called the kinetoscope & could only be seen one person at a time.
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George Eastman idea photography with film. He first used paper film before changing to celluloid (transparent plastic). = Kodak
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The Eastman Kodak Company made the first portable camera called "Brownie Camera" Was a black, rectangular shaped box covered with leather. To use it: hold the camera, aim, and turn a switch. Sold for $1.00 and each film cartridge was $0.15.
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James Maxwell discovered color photographs could be formed using RGB ilters. Poloroid method to develop - first colour instant film
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Steve Sasson invented the 1st digital camera.
it is an 8 pound camera
recorded 0.01 megapixel black and white photos to a cassette tape
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Improvement of digital techniques affects photography market positivey. Digital equipment speeds process of creating photographs = speeds up profit
