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  1851 Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process, i.e. Photography within a camera began.
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  images required only two or three seconds of light exposure
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  1884 Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film
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  1888 Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera.
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  1913/1914 First 35mm still camera developed
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  1948 Edwin Land markets the Polaroid camera.
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  1990 Eastman Kodak announces Photo CD as a digital image storage medium.
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  Nikons newest camera, D4, takes pictures in landscape mode, portrait mode, and many other features