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  2. History of photographic lens design - Wikipedia

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    The first auto-everything 35mm point-and-shoot camera with built-in zoom lens, the camera type that dominated the 1990s, was the Asahi Optical Pentax IQZoom (1987, Japan) with Pentax Zoom 35-70mm f/3.5-6.7 Tele-Macro. [113] The next landmark zoom was the Sigma 21-35mm f/3.5-4 (Japan) of 1981. It was the first super-wide angle zoom lens for ...

  3. Zoomar lens - Wikipedia

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    The first commercial version was used by Paramount newsreel photographers to cover the 1947 World Series. [6] In 1949, WAVE-TV became the first television station in the United States, to present a live telecast of the Kentucky Derby. The telecast was the first use of a Zoomar Lens in a television sports broadcast. The lens was loaned to WAVE ...

  4. Zoom lens - Wikipedia

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    For example, a zoom lens with focal lengths ranging from 100 mm to 400 mm may be described as a 4:1 or "4×" zoom. The term superzoom or hyperzoom is used to describe photographic zoom lenses with very large focal length factors, typically more than 5× and ranging up to 19× in SLR camera lenses and 22× in amateur digital cameras.

  5. Timeline of photography technology - Wikipedia

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    It requires an exposure in the camera that lasts at least eight hours and probably several days. 1834 – Hércules Florence, a French-Brazilian painter and the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, coined the word photographie for his technique, at least four years before John Herschel coined the English word photography. [9]

  6. History of the camera - Wikipedia

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    The collodion wet plate process that gradually replaced the daguerreotype during the 1850s required photographers to coat and sensitize thin glass or iron plates shortly before use and expose them in the camera while still wet. Early wet plate cameras were very simple and little different from Daguerreotype cameras, but more sophisticated ...

  7. Digital camera - Wikipedia

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    Digital superzoom cameras are digital cameras that can zoom in very far. These superzoom cameras are suitable for people who have nearsightedness . The HX series is a series containing Sony's superzoom cameras like HX20V , HX90V and the newest HX99.

  8. Camera - Wikipedia

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    Leica camera (1950s) Hasselblad 500 C/M with Zeiss lens. A camera is an instrument used to capture and store images and videos, either digitally via an electronic image sensor, or chemically via a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

  9. List of retronyms - Wikipedia

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    Before the invention of zoom lenses, all camera lenses had a fixed focal length, so they were just called "lenses". Procedural programming Before object-oriented programming was invented in the 1980s, there was just programming. Prop airplane