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Johann Heinrich Schulz discovered a substance called silver nirate that changes color when exposed to light. This made way for pictures to be taken and processed.
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The camera obscura is the black box around the camera. Joseph Niepce developed it and took the first picture with it. It wasn't an ideal way of taking pictures because it needed to be left out in the light for 8 hours before taking a picture then after the picture was taken it faded away after time.
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The Daguerreotype was invented by Louis Daguerre. This was a much more effecient way to take pictures because it only needed to stay in the light for 30 minutes and the pictures wouldn't fade away after time.
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Calotype process was developed by William Henry Talbot. This process made it possible to take muliple shots of the same picture.
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With the new Collodion process, cameras only needed a few seconds of light exposure to make a picture.
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Until 1871 pictures had to be developed immediately after they were taken. In 1871 Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, which made it possible to take pictures then develop them later.
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George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera.
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The Polariod allows people to take pictures and develop them straight from the camera itself.
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The Polariod came out with colored film.
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The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.
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Sony produced the first camcorder which allowed people to record their memories in real time.
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Canon put out the first digital camera for the public, which was later improved by Pixar.
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The camera phone technology was first used in Japan, but it quickly spread around the world.
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Kodak developed Easy Share digital camera, which made it to share pictures and videos on the computer.
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Kodak sold cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures.
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