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Definition: image


(1) (noun) A picture; graphic; photo. See graphics.

(2) (verb) To capture a scene (see imaging).

(3) A RAM or storage snapshot (see system image).




The First Commercial Photographic Method
Daguerreotype film was a highly polished silver surface on a copper plate exposed to iodine fumes to make it light sensitive. Invented by Louis Jacques Daguerre, from the 1840s to the 1850s, daguerroeotype images were a favorite of the rich and famous.