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Johann Zahn designed the first camera in 1685. This camera is known as the Camera Obscura.
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Cameras became more and more complex. Louis Daguerre made the second, and next complex camera, called the Kodac
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Kodak got into the market with the Retina I in 1934, which introduced the 135 cartridge used in all modern 35 mm cameras.
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By the late 1980s, the technology required to produce truly commercial digital cameras existed. The first true portable digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988, which recorded to a 2 MB SRAM memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory.
