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discovered white light is composed of white light
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the first permanent photograph was made in France
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The daguerreotype was appositive black and white image on a mirror polished, silver plated copper sheet
within a year of invention this invention was used all over the world.
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First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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William Henry Fox Talbot introduces the calotype, a further refinement of his negative-to-positive process. The calotype process greatly increased the photographic sensitivity of the negative and reduced the necessary exposure time in the camera to seconds.
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The studio of Southworth and Hawes creates daguerreotypes of early operations using ether as an anethesia at Massachusetts General Hospital. Early medical photography included documentation of operations and pathology views.
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J.T. Zealy takes a series of daguerreotypes of African American slaves for Louis Agassiz
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Panoramic camera, called the Sutton, is patented
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer. Allowed journalists to enlarge images
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Silver gelatin paper becomes commercially available
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Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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Reverend Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
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autochrome the first color process, invented in France
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Pictures of family events sent in cards
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Was a easily boughten for 1.00
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First 35mm still camera is developed.
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.
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Chester Carlson receives a patent for electric photography
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Edwin Land launches and markets the Polaroid camera.
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The International Museum of Photography opens at the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y.
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The pictorialist movement flourishes as a photographic style from the late 1860s to the early 1900s.Caroline Haskins Gurrey operated a photographic studio in Honululu and achieved recognition for her pictorialist-style portraits of Hawaii's mixed-race children.
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An early selfie stick. to capture your self portraits
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Made it possible for images to be put on a page
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Photohighway.com started the first photography site on the internet where photos can be uploaded directly from a digital camera.
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The Camera phone was introduced
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GoPro, is an American technology company founded in 2002 by Nick Woodman. It manufactures action cameras.
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Canon launches the Digital Rebel one of the first affordable DSLR’s aimed at the non-professional market.
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Kodak ceases production of film cameras
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Steve jobs announces the iPhone
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Canon announced the largest CMOS image sensor ever made. The new sensor measures 202mm by 205mm. It is about 40 times the size of full-frame image sensor and is capable of capturing images using 1/100 of the light a normal professional DSLR.
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Apple introduced a forward-facing camera with FaceTime, a 3.5-inch Retina display, and a 5-megapixel camera with LED flash.
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Wayne Fromm, a Canadian inventor who considers himself the father of the modern selfie stick. Could be used on any phone or camera
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It boasts a new autofocus system (utilizing 153 points, 99 of them are cross-type), a 3.2-inch 2.36-million-dot LCD touchscreen and built-in 400 Mbps Ethernet connection. Not only that, but the D5’s ISO range extends up to a hefty 3.28 million.
