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website First large transportable camera obscura was built by Irish scientist Robert Boyle and his assistant Robert Hooke.
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Website Joseph Nicephore Niepce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura. However, the image required 8 hours of light exposure and later faded.
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William Henry Talbot patents the Calotype process - the first negative-positive process making possible the first multiple copies.
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The first color photograph, an additive projected image of a tartan ribbon, is shown by James Clerk Maxwell.
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Kodak n°1 box camera is mass marketed; first easy-to-use camera.
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Louis Le Prince makes Roundhay Garden Scene, considered the first film ever made.
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First analog CCTV cameras installed. German engineer Walter Bruch was responsible for the design and installation of the CCTV cameras.
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First disposable cardboard camera built by Photo-Pac.
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First digital camera signals used in cameras over analog by NASA.
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website First digital camera invented by Steven J. Sasson.