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Learn about a virtual slow-motion camera that can capture photons or light particles moving through space which may be useful in medical imaging, in industrial or scientific use or even in consumer photography

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George Eastman, 1926.

George Eastman

American inventor, entrepreneur, and manufacturer

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Frederic Eugene Ives

American photographer and inventor

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John Henry Dallmeyer

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Étienne-Jules Marey

French physiologist

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