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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
David Clark

30 cameras that changed the world of photography

1939: Ming the panda taking a photograph of photographer Bert Hardy's son, Mike. Original Publication: Picture Post

To mark World Photography Day, we have been looking through the history of image making to pick out some of the most ground-breaking cameras that have been brought out over the first 200 years of photography. 

Our list starts with the camera obscura - an ancient artist's tool which was used by Frenchman Joseph Niepce to take what is the oldest photograph known, and proceeds with the first commercially-successful camera developed by Louis Daguerre. We move through the rise of Kodak, Leica, Nikon and more - and right through to the early success in digital cameras…

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