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All that was needed to invent the camera was knowledge of the camera obscura and a light sensitive substance. The Greeks knew of the camera obscura, so what if they successfully combined it with a light sensitive substance and photography was invented over 2 millennia earlier? Would this have any substantial effect on world history other than having photographs of things that happened IOTL?