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  2. Nicéphore Niépce - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French: [nisefɔʁ njɛps]; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) [1] was a French inventor and one of the earliest pioneers of photography. [2] Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process. [3]

  3. Photograph - Wikipedia

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    The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce.The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few years later at Le Gras, France, in 1826, but Niépce's process was not sensitive enough to be practical for that application: a camera ...

  4. View from the Window at Le Gras - Wikipedia

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    Niépce captured the scene with a camera obscura projected onto a 16.2 cm × 20.2 cm (6.4 in × 8.0 in) pewter plate thinly coated with bitumen of Judea, a naturally occurring asphalt. [9] The bitumen hardened in the brightly lit areas, but in the dimly lit areas it remained soluble and could be washed away with a mixture of oil of lavender and ...

  5. Heliography - Wikipedia

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    View from the Window at Le Gras, by Joseph Nicephore Niepce, 1826 or 1827, France - Harry Ransom Center - University of Texas at Austin After his return from London concentrated on making camera images, which, aware of their commercial potential, he ambiguously called “points de vue” in his letters to his brother.

  6. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    This was an analog camera, in that it recorded pixel signals continuously, as videotape machines did, without converting them to discrete levels; it recorded television-like signals to a 2 × 2 inch "video floppy". [41] In essence, it was a video movie camera that recorded single frames, 50 per disk in field mode, and 25 per disk in frame mode.

  7. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    Kodak introduces the first 8 mm amateur motion picture film, cameras, and projectors. [16] 1934 – The 135 film cartridge is introduced, making 35 mm easy to use for photography. 1935 Becky Sharp, the first feature film made in the full-colour "three-strip" version of Technicolor, is released.

  8. Daguerreotype - Wikipedia

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    In 1829 French artist and chemist Louis Daguerre, when obtaining a camera obscura for his work on theatrical scene painting from the optician Chevalier, was put into contact with Nicéphore Niépce, who had already managed to make a record of an image from a camera obscura using the process he invented: heliography.

  9. Movie camera - Wikipedia

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    Once the film was developed it was sliced down the middle and the ends attached, giving 50-foot (15 m) of Standard 8 film from a spool of 25-foot (7.6 m) of 16 mm film. 16 mm cameras, mechanically similar to the smaller format models, were also used in home movie making but were more usually the tools of semi professional film and news film makers.