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How did older spacecraft take and develop photographs and then beam them back to Earth?

For example, how did Voyager 1 take such awesome pictures of Saturn? I'm assuming the photographs were taken on film. Are there photochemicals onboard the spacecraft to develop AND a scanner to turn them into digital info for transmission?

Were the cameras actually just really early digital models?
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Early spy satellites would take shots on film and then send the film back to earth in a pod and it would then be developed.

The cameras on the Voyager craft were similar to TV cameras of the day and were in a way between modern digital cameras and film based cameras. The data they recorded was sent in a digital 8bit format but the way the cameras operated was analogue.