CP History of Photography (Mod 2)
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When did Kodak introduce film photography to the commercial market?
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1880s
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Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky invented which of the following?
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Bellows camera
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William Henry Fox Talbot invented which of the following?
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Calotype
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Autochrome Lumiere was which of the following?
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A color process
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What substance was the first photograph made from?
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Bitumen
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What was the first commercial photography process?
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Daguerreotype
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What camera introduced the concept of a \"snap-shot\"?
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Brownie
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What was the benefit of a calotype over a daguerreotype?
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Multiple copies of the photograph could be made.
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By the 1850s, daguerrotypes cost anywhere from 50 cents to 10 dollars apiece.
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True
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In the early days of photography, cameras were limited to professional photographers because of the knowledge needed to work the cameras and develop the images with various chemicals.
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True
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Frederick Scott Archer introduced the concept of combining artificial and natural light in the studio.
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False
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The term \"photography\" was first used in about 1839 by Sir John Herschel.
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True
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The collodion process used wet plates, which were glass plates that had been covered with a mixture of chemicals before being placed in the camera for the exposure.
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True
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The collodion process was significantly more expensive than the cost of a daguerreotype.
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False
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The calotype was named after the Greek word kalos, meaning \"beautiful.\"
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True
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The pinhole camera was invented in 1811.
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False
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The technology that contributed to digital cameras came from spy satellites used during the Cold War.
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True
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Kodak initially included film processing in the cost of the film itself.
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True
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The daguerreotype process was inexpensive and easy for just about anyone to use.
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False
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In 1884, George Eastman created a dry gel on paper, or what we think of as film.
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True
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The first commercially available digital camera was which of the following?
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Kodak DCS 100
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Who created the first photograph?
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Joseph Nicephore Niepce
