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a late 1800 to early 1900 camera is called a camera.The word camera comes from camera obscura;a dark room with a hole to let in light and sometimes a lens.A camera obscura is used sometimes to aid artists in drawing or sketching a scene.Joseph Daguerre discovered Photography by accident;he was sketching a scene in a camera obscura on a silver plate and used a weak acid solution to remove his sketch when he was done.He left the plate in the camera obscura overnight and dicovered that an image had formed on the silver the next day.

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