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  design a camera obscura made up of a collapsible tent
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  isaac newton discovers that white ligh is composed of different color
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  joann heinrich schulze discoered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light
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  "sun pictures"
 placinq opaque objects on leather treated with silver nurate
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  willliam hyde wollaston invents the camera lucida
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  creates a permanet image
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  first daguerreotype
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  first american patent issued in photography
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  frederick scott archer invented the colloion process
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  panoramic camera patented
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  oliver wendell holmes invents stereoscope viewer
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  richard leach maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process
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  kodak brownie camera was introduced the brownie box camera that eliminated the need for darkrom developing.
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  beqin makinq photoqrams(rayographs by placinq object on photographic paper and exposinq the shadow cast by distant light bulb
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  markets a dericative of barnacks camera commercially as the leica te first high quality 35 mm camera
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  assel bald introduces the polaroid black and white film
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  steve sasson builds the first digital still camera
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  Elsa dorfman begins marking portraits with the "20x34"polaroid
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  kodak introduces disk camera using an 8x11mm frame
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  Adobe potoshop was released!
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  the first consumer camera with a liquid crystal
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  the first camera to use compact
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  the first digital slr design and manufactured
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  the digital camera sales exceed for the first time
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  kodak ceases production of film cameras
