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The world’s first photographs were taken by Nicéphore Niépce, but they faded quickly. Fellow Frenchman Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre discovered a way of making a permanent image on a silver-coated copper plate. They didn’t take a long time to make, and the images can still be seen today. People rushed to have their portraits immortalized on daguerreotypes, as they were called, in the mid-1800s. Daguerreotype cameras developed their images on copper plates coated with a thin layer of silver. The entire camera had to be sent to the Kodak factory to obtain the photos.
Film cameras
Photography was a complicated and time-consuming process before American George Eastman invented roll-film cameras. Eastman invented a flexible film to replace the glass plates that were commonly used to capture images, then, with William Walker, a roll holder for the film. His KodaK camera was the first to have a built-in film-roll holder when it went on sale in 1888, making photography a lot simpler.
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