The prototype camera model Fergus chose could already detect UV, but getting the camera to send UV light was a little trickier.

费格斯选取的模型机型号原本就能探测到紫外线，但是要使照相机能够发送紫外线就有点难办了。

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The first digital camera prototype is closest to the fire ant's compound eyes, which only have 180 of these optical units, called ommatidia.

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Of course, technology often doesn't move forward in the exact way that we expect, and it is hard to believe that many consumes would carry around devices with the cannon-like protruding lenses of the Wonder Camera prototype.

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It had a crude prototype of a digital camera as early as 1975 and in the mid-1990s helped Apple develop its QuickTake 100 digital camera.

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