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The finished daguerrotype has to be framed behind glass with the edges sealed to prevent oxidation of the silver. After exposure the plate is placed over heated mercury, the vapour from which combines with the silver particles to create an image. To produce a daguerrotype a highly polished silvered copper plate is exposed to iodine vapour, leaving a thin coating of light sensitive silver iodide on it. Daguerre produce the world's first daguerrotype photograph. William Henry Fox Talbot starts the work that is to lead to the 1839 announcement by the British Royal Academy of the discovery of a way of obtaining images on paper by the action of light.
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Nicéphore Niépce (1765-1833) a French doctor, produces the world's first photograph using pewter plates in a camera obscura. In France the Niepce brothers initiate experiments to create images using light-sensitive materials. These three blend together to make up the whole spectrum and are received by only three cones in the eye. That there are three primary colours red, green and violet which move in waves.
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Thomas Young propounds the 'three colour' idea of light. Thomas Wedgewood, in England, makes photograms by placing objects on leather sensitized with silver nitrate. He believes these colours to be particles which bounce off objects and which are perceived in the eye by seven different colour receptors.Ĭanaletto uses the camera obscura as an aid to his painting in Venice Isaac Newton divides sunlight with a prism and discovers that white light is itself a combination of seven distinct colours. On one a lens is fitted which casts an image on the translucent surface at the back of the other. It consisted of two boxes, one sliding inside the other.
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By the middle of the seventeenth century the portable camera obscura had been developed. Leonardo Da Vinci describes the camera obscura.