Photography did indeed make certain kinds of painting obsolete — the daguerreotype virtually did away with the portrait miniature.

摄影确实使某些种类的绘画过时了——银版照相几乎使微型肖像消失了。

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Imagine how different photography was then. There were no digital cameras. There were no "miniature" cameras - what we would call SLRs. There were no "point-and-shoot" cameras.

想象一下，当时的摄影是多么的不同：没有数码相机，没有被我们称为单反相机的“微型”相机，也没有“傻瓜”相机。

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