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Monochrome photography, or is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light (), but not a different color ().The majority of monochrome photographs produced today are black-and-white, either from a gelatin silver process, or as digital photography.
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right).. The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances are visibly altered by exposure to light. [2]
The contrast ranges from black at the weakest intensity to white at the strongest. [1] Grayscale images are distinct from one-bit bi-tonal black-and-white images, which, in the context of computer imaging, are images with only two colors: black and white (also called bilevel or binary images). Grayscale images have many shades of gray in between.
1902 – Arthur Korn devises practical telephotography technology (reduction of photographic images to signals that can be transmitted by wire to other locations).Wire-Photos are in wide use in Europe by 1910, and transmitted to other continents by 1922. 1907 – The Autochrome plate is introduced. It becomes the first commercially successful ...
Since the late 1960s, few mainstream films have been shot in black-and-white. The reasons are frequently commercial, as it is difficult to sell a film for television broadcasting if the film is not in color. 1961 was the last year in which the majority of Hollywood films were released in black and white.
Black-and-white music videos (566 P) P. Black-and-white photographs (1 C, 170 P) Monochrome photography (1 C, 15 P) T. Black-and-white television episodes ...
The GeoEye-1 satellite has high resolution imaging system and is able to collect images with a ground resolution of 0.41 meters (16 inches) in panchromatic or black and white mode. It collects multispectral or color imagery at 1.65-meter resolution or about 64 inches. WorldView-2 image of Weston-super-Mare.
Daguerreotype of Louis Daguerre in 1844 by Jean-Baptiste Sabatier-Blot. Daguerreotype (/ d ə ˈ ɡ ɛər (i.) ə ˌ t aɪ p,-(i.) oʊ-/ ⓘ; [1] [2] French: daguerréotype) was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s.