Photo Software For Linux
A photograph (also known as a photo, or more generically referred to as an ''image'' or ''picture'') is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor. The process and practice of creating such images is called photography. Most photographs are now created using a smartphone or camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would perceive. Etymology The word ''photograph'' was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light". History The first permanent photograph, a contact-exposed copy of an engraving, was made in 1822 using the bitumen-based "heliography" process developed by Nicéphore Niépce. The first photographs of a real-world scene, made using a camera obscura, followed a few year ...
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Nicéphore Niépce Oldest Photograph 1825
Nicéphore may refer to: *Nicéphore Niépce Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the earliest History of photography, pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving ... (1765–1833), French inventor, most noted as the inventor of photography and a pioneer in the field * Nicéphore Soglo (born 1934), Beninese politician who was Prime Minister of Benin 1990–1991 and President 1991–1996 * St-Nicéphore, Quebec, former municipality that has become a sector of Drummondville in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec See also * Nikephoros (other) {{disambiguation ...
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