To capture the images in the camera obscura

in #photo7 years ago

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To capture the images in the camera obscura, which had

been known at least since Leonardo's time. When, after about five years of

effort, both Niepce and Daguerre simultaneously succeeded in doing this,

the state, aided by the patenting difficulties encountered by the inventors,

assumed control of the enterprise and made it public, with compensation to

the pioneers.