History Test Flashcards
Louis Daguerre
Worked with Joseph niepce to make a color process
Daguerreotype
Photo on a metal plate
Revealed in 1839
Photograph
Light drawing
Camera obscura
Dark chamber
Emulsion
Light sensitive material in which the image is formed on film or on photo paper
William Henry Fox Talbot
Negative-positive process
Documentary photograph
A depiction of the real world by a photographer whose intent is to communicate something important
1842
George Eastman
Flexible film 1889
James Clerk Maxwell
Proved that red, blue, and yellow are the primary colors of light
The brownie
1888 Eastman presented camera with 100 exposures
Polaroid
Dr. Edwin Land
Sony mavica
First film-less camera in 1972
First commercial electronic camera
1981
Ccd
Charged coupled device
Replaces film from old cameras
Pixel
Small square dots that make up an image
1 megapixel=
I million pixels
The first “real” digital images came from where?
NASA
Shades of gray
256
Black 0
White 256
Steve Sasson
Created the first digital camera using a CCD in 1975
Casio 1995 camera
First camera to have a LCD screen
Photo illustrations
Computer art that begins with a digitize dphotograph using image enhancement software the artist can then apply variety of special-effects to transform photo the into a work of art
Photo illustrations are
Always labeled
Downloading
To transform a digital file on to the computer
Joseph niepce
First person to fix a permanent image in 1826