</chapter>
<chapter id="mere-copyists">
<title>CHAPTER TWO: "Mere Copyists"</title>
-<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
+<indexterm id="idxphotography" class='startofrange'>
+ <primary>photography</primary>
+</indexterm>
<para>
In 1839, Louis Daguerre invented the first practical technology for
producing what we would call "photographs." Appropriately enough, they
zealous and wealthy amateurs. (There was even an American Daguerre
Association that helped regulate the industry, as do all such
associations, by keeping competition down so as to keep prices up.)
+<indexterm><primary>Daguerre, Louis</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<para>
Yet despite high prices, the demand for daguerreotypes was strong.
taking of a picture from its developing. These were still plates of
glass, and thus it was still not a process within reach of most
amateurs.
+<indexterm><primary>Talbot, William</primary></indexterm>
</para>
<indexterm id="idxeastmangeorge" class='startofrange'>
<primary>Eastman, George</primary>
learn.
</para>
<indexterm startref="idxeastmangeorge" class='endofrange'/>
+<indexterm startref="idxphotography" class='endofrange'/>
<para>
These buses are not cheap, but the technology they carry is
increasingly so. The cost of a high-quality digital video system has