The capture technology of still photography and the equipment built specifically to move photographic images for news use. Belongs here: the daguerreotype, celluloid roll film, the charge-coupled device and the digital camera as photographic capture technology, and the wirephoto as the technology that let a news photograph travel by wire. Does not belong here: motion-picture capture technology, grouped under cinema and projection technology, or the pre-photographic optical devices that preceded the camera, grouped under optical devices and precursors.
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia: History of photography, Daguerreotype sectionQuote, Wikipedia: History of photography, Daguerreotype section
On August 2, 1839 Daguerre demonstrated the details of the process to the Chamber of Peers in Paris.
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