My Romance. Maggie Smith plays a heart-on-sleeve novelist in the deeply felt My House in Umbria; Rachael Stirling is smashing (natchâsheâs Diana Riggsâs daughter) in Tipping the Velvet. After the bomb: Emmy Clarke, left, and Dame Maggie Smith in Umbria. Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an aging romance novelist who has rewritten her own life.
Since the mid-1970s, Kodak has invented several solid-state image sensors that converted light to digital pictures for professional and home consumer use. In 1986, Kodak scientists invented the world's first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5x7-inch digital photo-quality print. In 1987, Kodak released seven products for recording, storing, manipulating, transmitting and printing electronic still video images.
The transition from room sized camera to a portable camera was envisaged in 1685 by Johann Zahn. The first camera was invented by Alexander Wolcott. His camera design was patented on 8 may, 1840. With the invention of Alexander Wolcott it was possible to click candid pictures that did not fade away with time. However, the earliest photographs were not taken with Alexander Wolcott's invention.