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2. Flash (photography) - Wikipedia

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   Video demonstration of high-speed flash photography. A flash is a device used in photography that produces a brief burst of light (lasting around 1⁄200 of a second) at a color temperature of about 5500 K [ 1 ][citation needed] to help illuminate a scene. The main purpose of a flash is to illuminate a dark scene.

3. 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]

4. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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   By the time of Niépce, portable box camera obscurae suitable for photography were widely available. Johann Zahn envisioned the first camera small and portable enough for practical photography in 1685, but it took nearly 150 years for such an application to become possible. Pinhole camera. Light enters a dark box through a small hole and ...

5. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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   Daguerreotype (/ dəˈɡɛər (i.) əˌtaɪp, - (i.) oʊ -/ ⓘ; [ 1 ][ 2 ] French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. "Daguerreotype" also refers to an image created through this process. Invented by Louis Daguerre and introduced worldwide in 1839, [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] the ...

6. Darkroom - Wikipedia

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   A darkroom is used to process photographic film, make prints and carry out other associated tasks. It is a room that can be made completely dark to allow the processing of light -sensitive photographic materials, including film and photographic paper. Various equipment is used in the darkroom, including an enlarger, baths containing chemicals ...

7. Digital photography - Wikipedia

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   Digital photography spans a wide range of applications with a long history. Much of the technology originated in the space industry, where it pertains to highly customized, embedded systems combined with sophisticated remote telemetry. Any electronic image sensor can be digitized; this was achieved in 1951.