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"We follow the scientists around and look over their shoulders. They're watching their feet: provable mistakes are bad for them. We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes."
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![]() Henrik Juve is the first to describe this idea.
I might have to give the nod to John Jacob Astor IV on having expressed the idea in his 1894 classic A Journey in Other Worlds; see his description of what are now called "speed cameras" - he described instantaneous kodaks.
The classic example of an instant camera is the Kodak SX-70; my dad had one of these and they were great looking cameras, well designed and perfect for his purpose. He was an architect who visited job sites to make sure construction was proceeding properly; he documented progress with photographs. He could see that the pictures were adequate before leaving the site.
Another example of the use of instant photography that science fiction fans probably recall occurs at the end of The Terminator (1984):
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