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The first pinhole camera, also called Camera Obscura, was invented by Alhazen.
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The Daguerreotype was announced by the French Academy of Sciences. One of these inventions is now the worlds most expensive cameras.
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George Eastman, a pioneer in photographic film usage, invented the Kodak roll-film camera.He started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first Kodak camera was very simple and cheap.
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The Raisecamera, also known as a travel camera, was an extremely light weight and had small dimensions when it was folded to make it very desirable for landscape photographers.
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Edwin Land invented the first polariod camera which could take and print the picture in one minute.
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Kodak made the first professional digital camera which were very useful for photojournalists.
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The first consumer level market digital camera that worked at an at home computer was released on February 17, 1994.
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In Japans Sharp's J-SH04 introduced the worlds firstcamera phone.
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The Cannon EOS 5D was launched. This was the first consumer priced full-frame digital SLR with a 24x36mm CMOS sensor.