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The first magazine to print everything in clour
The oldest consumer magazine still in print is The Scots Magazine, which was first published in 1739, though multiple changes in ownership -
The first photo of a person
"Boulevard du Temple", taken by Louis Daguerre in late 1838 or early 1839, was the first-ever photograph of a person. It is an image of a busy street, but because exposure time was over ten minutes, the city traffic was moving too much to appear. The exception is a man in the bottom left corner, who stood still getting his boots polished long enough to show up in the picture. -
The first permanent image
The first permanent photoetching was an image produced in 1822 by the French inventor, Daguerre took the first ever photo of a person in 1839 when, the images were displayed on television, and the camera was not fully digital. -
The first action photo
Muybridge successfully photographed a horse in fast motion using a series of twenty-four cameras. The first experience successfully took place on June 11. Muybridge used a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras, 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by one horse stride, taking pictures at one thousandth of a second. The cameras were arranged parallel to the track, with trip-wires attached to each camera shutter triggered by the horses hooves. -
The first aeriel photo
M. Arthur Batut took the first aerial photographs using a kite. It was taken over Labruguiere, France in the late 1880s. The camera, attached directly to the kite, had an altimeter that encoded the exposure altitude on the film allowing scaling of the image. A slow burning fuse, responding to a rubber band-driven device, actuated the shutter within a few minutes after the kite was launched. -
The first colour photo
The first processes for colour photography appeared in 1861, taken by James clark Maxwell and he took a picture of a tartan ribbon and it was a permanent colour photo -
The first underwater colour photo
When the electrical impulse from the shutter ignited the powder, the result was kaboom! The enormous explosion, equal to the light of 2,400 flashbulbs, illuminated the sea down to 15 feet . In this way—one plate at a time, for they had to repeat the whole sequence with each new shot—they stalked about the turquoise shallows, marking their progress with blinding, booming regularity. His name was William Harding Longley. -
The first photo-map of the night sky
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The first digital still camera
In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists. It was a Nikon F-3 camera equipped by Kodak with a 1.3 megapixel sensor. -
The first space photo
On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. The grainy, black-and-white photos were taken from an altitude of 65 miles by a 35-millimeter motion picture camera.
