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Cameras were a development of the camera obscura ,a device that dates back to the ancient Chinese and ancient Greeks.
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Louis Daguerre continued to experiment after his partners death, and in 1837 he created the daguerreotype and it was revealed to the public in 1839. Henry Fox Talbot created calotypes by focusing glass.
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Désiré van Monckhoven created collodion dry plates in 1855. This was the first "instant" camera.
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The Kodak was the first camera that used film. It was made by George Eastman in 1885.
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Many manufacturers started using 35 mm film for still photography in 1905.
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The first reflex camera was the Franke & Heidecke Rolleiflex medium format TLR of 1928.
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This was the Polaroid Model 95, the world's first viable instant-picture camera. It was made in 1948.
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The first camera to feature automatic exposure was the selenium light meter.
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The first digital camera was the Sony Mavica, which was made in 1981.
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The Nikon D1 was created in 1999 and was a very expensive and new camera at the time. This camera was one of many different types of cameras that came out at this time.
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