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Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a Camera Obscura.
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Louis Daguerre developed a more convenient and effective method of photography.
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Henry Fox Talbot invented the first negative which multiple positive prints were made.
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Frederick Scoff Archer invented the wet plate negative.
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Hamilton Smith patented the tintypes, another medium that heralded the birth of photography.
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It was the first camera invented that was hand-held.
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George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled.
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Frederick Wratten and Kenneth Mees invented the first panchromatic plates.
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The first commercially available photoflash bulb was patented by Johannes Ostermeier.
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These films used the modern technology of dye-coupled colors in which a chemical process connects the three dye layers together to create an apparent color image.
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Edwin Herbert Land was the American inventor and physicist whose one-step process for developing and printing photos created instant photography.
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Canon demonstrated the first digital electronic still camera.
