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  Designed the first camera, but ideas of such mechanisms were around for a long while, going back into the book of optics in 1021
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  However, the first photo snapped was taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce because the first camera was too big to save the photo.
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  Louis Daguerre developed a new way to take photos that only need 30 minutes of light exposure and didn't fade away.
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  William Henry Talbot created the Calotype Process by using silver iodine to make multiple copies of the same picture.
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  Richard Leach Maddox created a new way to wait and develop pictures later instead of at the moment
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  The polaroid is invented and photos are developed on the spot.
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  Polaroid introduces the first colored film ever.
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  The digital camera had been produced in 1974 ,however did not begin marketing until 1984, to which Pixar improved.
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  The camera phone craze had been started in Japan, however it spread to the entire world.
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  The brand Kodak finally put out a camera that did not need to be connected to a computer to download or share.