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History of Photography
1800: Thomas Wedgwood makes "sun pictures" by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver -
History of photography
1936: Development of Kodachrome, the first color multi-layered color film; development of Exakta, pioneering 35mm single-lens reflex (SLR) camera -
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1959: Nikon F introduced. -
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1980: Elsa Dorfman begins making portraits with the 20x24" Polaroid. -
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Jeff Wall made his highly staged pictures to be shown as light-filled transparencies of the kind seen in airport terminals and bus stops; he composed his images with all the obsessive detail and narrative suggestion of a film director on location, while also referring to the socially oriented canvases of nineteenth-century French masters such as Courbet and Manet. -
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Other artists, including John Baldessari and Christian Boltanski, appropriated banal vernacular photography from movie stills to family snapshots, respectively and integrated them into larger arrangements that commented on the erasure of cultural memory. -
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1982: Sony demonstrates Mavica "still video" camera -
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1985: Minolta markets the world's first autofocus SLR system ,called Maxxum in the US In the American West by Richard Avedon -
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CANON Ci-10 - 1985. Color video camera with 9 mm lens. 508 x 466 pixel CCD. Image sensor of 8.8 x 6.6mm. Images could be recorded on still video floppy discs (with proper equipment). -
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SONY CCD-V8 - 1985. World's first camcorder capable of recording video on standard 8mm videotape -
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The CCD-V8 video camera was manual focus only and radically different than the following CCD-V8AF model. The CCD-V8 did have distance markers on the lens to aid in focusing manually, a feature retained by the CCD-V8AF. The CCD-V8 had no internal auto focus parts, circuit boards, or manual / auto focus switch on the outside. However, the early CCD-V8AF camera which replaced the CCD-V8 model had a hunting problem, not being able to decide where the correct focus point should be. The auto focus mot -
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The Lumaphone began as a division of the Atari Video Game Company. The division was called Ataritel. This particular phone was developed in 1983. Atari Sold the division to Mitsubishi in 1984. The "Lumaphone", the Atari Videophone in its finished form, was advertised in 1985 and sold by Mitsubishi Electric of America in 1986 as the Luma LU-1000. The Lumaphone could transmit an image in 3-5 seconds and could have a parallel printer attached for printing out small black and white images (Mitsubish -
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1990: Adobe Photoshop released. -
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wo casio prototype cameras were developed, but not put into production. These were prototypes for functional testing nicknamed Atsuko and Omoko built by Casio Computer when Casio was developing their first digital cameras equipped with LCD viewfinders. Atsuko tended to overheat, so a tiny fan was installed in the viewfinder compartment, and an LCD screen was substituted for the through-the-lens viewfinder. The nickname Omoko refers to the camera's additional weight (omo means heavy in Japanes -
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FUJI DS-H2 - 1992. 1/2-inch 390K pixel CCD. 2X lens. Shutter 1/4 to 1/750 second. Memory card stored up to 40 images. Built-in autoflash, autofocus, and autoexposure control. -
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he RC-560/570 still video camera used a 1/2 inch, 410,000 pixel CCD image sensor and Hi-band specification to produce images with horizontal resolution of 450 TV lines. 3X zoom and integral automatic flash. An optional recording interface daughterboard for the Mac NuBus card could give the additional flexibility of converting digital images to analog and recording them with the camera. This would allow downloading a computer-generated presentation onto a video floppy from Aldus Persuasion or s -
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2001: Polaroid goes bankrupt -
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2003: Four-Thirds standard for compact digital SLRs introduced with the Olympus E-1; Canon Digital Rebel introduced for less than $1000 -
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2004: Kodak ceases production of film cameras
