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It was a simple handheld box camera containing a 100-exposure roll of film that used paper negatives made by Louis Le Price in Han China.
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The Giroux daguerreotype camera was made by Maison Susse Frères with a lens by Charles Chevalier, the first to be commercially produced.
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The first American patent was issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.
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The panoramic camera was patented by Thomas Sutton.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes invents stereoscope viewer.
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George Eastman patents Kodak roll-film camera. Eastman was a pioneer in photographic films usage. He also started manufacturing paper films in 1885. His first �Kodak� box camera was very simple and very cheap.
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The first mass-marketed camera – the Brownie � was presented by Eastman. It was on sale until the 1960s.
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The Raisecamera (the travel camera) was invented. Extreme lightweight and small dimensions when it is folded made this photo camera the most desirable thing for landscape photographers.
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The first 35mm still camera (also called �candid� camera ) was developed by Oskar Barnack of the German Leica Camera. Later it became the standard for all film cameras.
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Edwin Land invented the Polaroid camera which could take a picture and print it in about one minute was invented by Edwin Land.
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First autofocus camera Konica C35 AF by Konica.
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Sony Mavica – The world’s first digital electronic still camera.
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Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS) which was widely used by photojournalists.
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The world’s first camera phone.
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The canon EOS 5D is launched.