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A Short History of Photography: The Daguerreotype

We live in an amazing time for development in the field of photography with new cameras and technologies being invented and released all the time. But where did it all begin? This video takes us way back to the first photograph and the development of the Daguerreotype – an early photographic process.

Also check out the following video on another early photographic process – the Collodion Process.

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Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse

is the editor and founder of Digital Photography School.

He lives in Melbourne Australia and also runs a newsletter on adapting vintage lenses to modern digital cameras called Old Glass New Light.

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