Modern scanners are considered the successors of early telephotography and fax input devices. Several cinematographers photographed this film using macrophotography, telephotography, and time-lapse photography. In 1951, EFE installed its first telephotography receiver. His son Herbert E. Ives was a pioneer of television and telephotography, including color facsimile. Wirephoto, telephotography or radiophoto is the sending of pictures by telegraph, telephone or radio.