During the Renaissance, artists sought to accurately represent reality, leading to the development of tools like the camera obscura and camera lucida to aid in achieving realistic perspective. In the early 1800s, scientists worked to permanently capture projected images, with Joseph Nicéphore Niépce creating the first permanent photograph in 1827. Louis Daguerre later invented the daguerreotype, a monochromatic photograph printed on a metal plate, while William Henry Fox Talbot developed the calotype process using negatives that could be reproduced. While the daguerreotype provided higher quality images, the calotype's ability to produce duplicates made it more commercially viable.