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  2. History of photography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection; the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]

  3. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    However, for the record: the first autofocus lens for a still camera was the Konishiroku Konica Hexanon 38mm f/2.8 [171] built into the Konica C35 AF (1977, Japan) 35mm point-and-shoot; the first autofocus lens for an SLR camera was the unnamed 116mm f/8 [172] built into the Polaroid SX-70 Sonar (1978, USA) instant film SLR; the first ...

  4. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    An 18th-century artist utilizing a camera obscura for image tracing. The camera obscura (from the Latin for 'dark room') is a natural optical phenomenon and precursor of the photographic camera. It projects an inverted image (flipped left to right and upside down) of a scene from the other side of a screen or wall through a small aperture onto ...

  5. Carte de visite - Wikipedia

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    Cartes de visite camera with four lenses. Engraving from D. V. Monckhoven. Traité Général Photographie Comprenant tous les Procédés Connus jusqu'à ce Jour; La Théorie de la Photographie Application aux Sciences d’Observation. 1863 1859 carte de visite of Napoleon III by Disdéri, which popularized the carte-de-visite format One of the first cartes de visite of Queen Victoria taken by ...

  6. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    Harold Edgerton develops the Rapatronic camera for the U.S. government. 1948 The Hasselblad camera is introduced. Edwin H. Land introduces the first Polaroid instant camera. 1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder.

  7. Richard Leach Maddox - Wikipedia

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    Maddox, at the initial stage of invention, could probably produce only 'lantern slides' contact-copied from his microscope plates, the slow speed being impracticable for camera lens images. It was these origins that led to the miniaturization and adaptability of photographic emulsions, and consequently paved the way for social and action ...

  8. This man invented the digital camera in 1975 — and ... - AOL

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    If your employee came to you in 1975 and told you he'd invented the digital camera, what would you do? If you were Kodak, the answer was to effectively shove him in a closet and hope the product ...

  9. Vincent Chevalier - Wikipedia

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    He played a key role in the history of the camera. [1] The very first photograph was taken in 1825 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, a French inventor who used a sliding wooden camera box made by Chevalier. [3] [2] He died in 1841 in Paris, France. [1] His son became a manufacturer of cameras and lenses. [3]