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  The next two pages will be about the history of the camera and how it’s developed.

1814 : A Frenchman called Joseph Nicéphore took the first ever photographic image with his “Camera Obscura ”. This image was taken by having the shutter left open for eight hours and faded shortly after.

1837: The French artist Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre took the first fixed image on his Daguerreotype camera. This image did not fade and took less than thirty minutes of exposure.

1843: The first advertisement using a photograph is made in Philadelphia

1851: The Collodion process is invented by Frederick Scott Archer. The Collodion Process is a photographic process using glass plates.

1859: The panoramic camera is patented In Sutton.

1880: Eastman dry plate company is made.

1884: Flexible, paper based photographic film is invented by company “Eastman”.

1888: Eastman has another invention, the Kodak roll film camera.

1900: The first mass marketing camera called “the Browning” was invented.

1927: Electricity company General Electric invents the modern flash bulb. It enables the photograph to be brighter or taken in dark areas and seen clearly in the finished picture.

1948: Edwin Land markets his invention, the Polaroid camera.

1960: The EG&G company invents the first underwater camera.

1968: <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'AdLib Win95BT'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">The first ever literally “out of this world” photograph is taken. And we receive an image of our planet taken from the moon.

1980: <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'AdLib Win95BT'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Sony publicly gives a demonstration of their newest addition to the original camera, the camcorder.

1984: <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'AdLib Win95BT'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Four years later canon demonstrates their next big thing for many years, an electronic still camera.

1990: <span style="color: fuchsia; font-family: 'AdLib Win95BT'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'MS Mincho'; mso-fareast-language: JA;">Eastman Kodak develops the photo cd as a digital image storing device.

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