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  In 1816 the crude wiiden camera came out and had a microscopic lens.
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  William Henry Fox Talbot’s camera made the first Photogenic drawings' on paper sensitized with silver chloride.
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  Daguerre himself designed the camera, this was the very first Commercially manufactured camera.
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  A camera with a hand crank driving a swing lens covering a 150 degree arc. The plates were 19 to 24 inches long.
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  Edward Anthony’s camera was extremely advanced with Non marked Petzval lens & Cap with Iron Center stand. Half Plate model with groundglass and Holder, Double trap door, top loading, with expandable rear focusing.
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  A camera intended for the military. This was one of the first compact folding cameras ever made.
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  Introduced by the London stereoscopic company that is only 8 x 4 3/4 x 2 inches deep.
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  Simon Wing of Charlestown, Massachusets, patents a sliding plate holder and a studio camera.
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  Thomas Sutton patents the first single-lens reflex camera. The photographer views the scene though the viewfinder which is the same line of sight from which the light passes the lens to expose the plate.
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  A small boxlike camera made in 5 sizes for processing a photograph inside the camera.