The earliest cameras around 1830 already removed people, perfectly. Exposure times were as long as 8 hours, so people were invisible. only buildings, trees, etc

The earliest cameras around 1830 already removed people, perfectly. Exposure times were as long as 8 hours, so people were invisible. only buildings, trees, etc appeared. Link below includes images of streets with people “removed”, and has the oldest known image of a person, a shoeshine that stayed in one place long enough to be seen https://www.livescience.com/60387-oldest-photographs.html https://www.livescience.com/60387-oldest-photographs.html