Camera Day 2025: 5 things you didn`t know
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National Camera Day
Every year, National Camera Day is observed in the US and around the world on June 29 to celebrate the invention of the device that helps us takes photos today
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Early inventors
Some of the earliest forms of the camera were known to be invented by Englishman Thomas Wedgwood and Henry Fox Talbot, along with Frenchman Niecephore Niepce
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German connection
Before Kodak made cameras popular, they were being made in Germany by the likes of Leica and Contax before the Japanese joined in making their own
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Digital and phone cameras
As the 21st century brought with it digital cameras, it was Sharp who introduced the first every phone camera in 2000
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India`s first photographers
While the first Indian male photographer is widely regarded to be Raja Deen Dayal, the first female is said to be Homai Vyarawalla
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