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5-4th century B.C. Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.
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Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of a spectrum of colors.
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Johann Heinrich Schulze discovers that silver nitrate darkens upon exposure to light, giving a starting point for the making of a camera.http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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Using the camera obsurca Joseph Niepce makes the first photo image, in black and white. It took 8 hours of light exposure and faded away very quickly. significantly.http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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Louis Daguerre succesfully got the camera too not fade and require only 30 minitues of ligt exposure.http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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Frederick Scott Archer invented the Collodion process, that meant images required only two or three seconds of light exposure.http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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George Eastman invents flexible, paper-based photographic film.
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First mass-marketed camera, The Brownie is invented.http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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First 35mm still camera, it reveloutionized how people could take cameras with them, and the storage capacity. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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General Electric invents the modern flash bulb, to use on the camera to take better and brighter pictures in darker settings. http://inventors.about.com/od/pstartinventions/a/Photography.htm
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This provided an easier way of consumers too use a camera and get the color along with it.
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Introduces quicker one step photos without the wait time.
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Eastman Kodak introduces the high speed film with the SX-70 camera.
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Built for the U.S navy, too inspect images during the cold war, deep under the water.
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Polaroid shows their new instant color film, so people can take color photos as well anywhere.
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During the space era scientists scrambled too find a way too take pictures from outer space and created more high definition cameras.
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No need for a color film, and the camera became more easier to carry.
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Konica introduces a camera where you can point and shoot and it automatically focuses.
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This was a huge development for the camera, now it is able too take pictures as well as record videos, it revolutionized the camera, and gave it a whole new direction.
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Canon introduces eletronic cameras, so all you have too do is charge them, and it provided better definition cameras.
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