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  2. Ibn al-Haytham - Wikipedia

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    The camera obscura was known to the ancient Chinese, and was described by the Han Chinese polymath Shen Kuo in his scientific book Dream Pool Essays, published in the year 1088 C.E. Aristotle had discussed the basic principle behind it in his Problems, but Alhazen's work contained the first clear description of camera obscura.

  3. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    This camera also used Nikon F-mount lenses, which meant film photographers could use many of the same lenses they already owned. Digital camera sales continued to flourish, driven by technology advances. The digital market segmented into different categories, Compact Digital Still Cameras, Bridge Cameras, Mirrorless Compacts and Digital SLRs.

  4. 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]

  5. Edwin H. Land - Wikipedia

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    He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision, among other things. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in late 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in 60 seconds or less.

  6. History of optics - Wikipedia

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    In a work known in the west as De radiis stellarum, al-Kindi developed a theory "that everything in the world ... emits rays in every direction, which fill the whole world." [10] The theorem of Ibn Haytham. This theory of the active power of rays had an influence on later scholars such as Ibn al-Haytham, Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon. [11]

  7. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    1949 – The Contax S camera is introduced, the first 35 mm SLR camera with a pentaprism eye-level viewfinder. 1952 – Bwana Devil, a low-budget polarized 3-D film, premieres in late November and starts a brief 3-D craze that begins in earnest in 1953 and fades away during 1954. 1954 – Leica M Introduced; Photograph scanned into a digital ...

  8. Timeline of electrical and electronic engineering - Wikipedia

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    Also in Germany working on it is ongoing since 1922. 1925 appear the first electrically recorded disks in both countries. At the Leipzig Spring Fair, the first miniature camera "Leica" is presented to the public. John Logie Baird performs the first screening of a living head with a resolution of 30 vertical lines using a Nipkow disk.

  9. Louis Le Prince - Wikipedia

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    The last remaining film of Le Prince's single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of Adolphe Le Prince playing a diatonic button accordion. It was recorded on the steps of the house of Joseph Whitley, Louis's father-in-law. [2] The recording date may be the same as Roundhay Garden as the camera is in a similar position and Adolphe is dressed ...