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| Pixmania offers digital and traditional photographic and video cameras, equipment, accessories, and digital technology. It also offers film processing, reproductions and special promotions both in digital and traditional (silver-based) products and related services. This company is one of the most important providers of this kind of materials in France and the rest of Europe (Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Scandinavia). They offer a website publish in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and other languages, as well as subsidiaries and representatives in all these countries. Secure server; international shipping. Photography is both an art and a science; the first attempts to imprint by chemical means an image over paper were successful as early as 1799. However, the lack of means to fix those images made such pictures a technical curiosity until a few decades later fixing reagent compounds were produced. These reagents turn the negative exposure into a positive that will not wash away by action of sunlight. The first kind of successful photos were the daguerrotypes, obtained thanks to a light-sensible emulsion made out of silver nitrate and Iodine. It is Iodine which gave these their characteristic reddish hues.Daguerrotypes had one disadvantage: a lot of exposure time was needed in order to actually produce a picture. Subjects would have to stand still for longer than half an hour, and that was somewhat cumbersome and difficult, especially for children.Portraits in particular, and photography in broader terms, received a great impulse at the time of the civil war in the United States. For obvious sentimental reasons, soldiers often liked to be pictured before leaving for the battlefield. Plus, for the first time in history, journalists could depict and describe combat areas in a very graphical and visual way, bringing war - literally - to any part of the world. At those times film technology had not been invented yet; that was the work of George Eastman, a few years later. A negative of a picture was obtained using a camera much like we have today, but bulkier and simpler indeed; the negative appeared over a glass sheet treated with a light sensible chemical compound, and this plaque was to be protected from sunlight until processed, like our modern films. In order to do that, photographers needed either a studio, or a cart with a dark room inside, where they carried all kinds of reagents and chemicals capable to process the images they took. |
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