Who Invented Camera ?

Kenneth Blacker: Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre

Sang Hanafin: depends on what you consider to be a camera. cameras were in use before the invention of film. in more recent times, it was Sony that recognized the the CCD used in video cameras could also be used for still photography. they invented the Mavica cameras which recorded a video "still" on an analog VF (video floppy) disk. this was before the era of digital cameras.

Gennie Shauer: Where would photography be without Oskar Barnack ?

Sheldon Lally: Nobody knows! The original camera was the camera obscura - a darkended room with a small window that projected an image of the outside world (upside down) on the opposite wall.It was used by artists who made portable ones.It was in use many many years before the photographic camera was produced.The key to when the photographic camera was invented is not the camera at all. The question should be when was the photographic process invented - ie using light ! to record images on photosensitive chemicals coated on a medium. So the inventor of photography took a pre-existing tool (the camera obscura) and applied it to photosensitive medium.The first person to take a photograph in this way was William Fox Talbot in the 1830's. He is generally regarded as the inventor of photography - but not the camera....Show more

Tracy Huesso: George Eastman invented the first paper-based film, and the first hand-held Kodak camera for the public and created a multi-million dollar company that is still a leader in the industry today. The first permanent photograph was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce using a sliding wooden box camera made by Charles and Vincent Chevalier in Paris. Niépce built on a discovery by Johann Heinrich Schultz (1724): a silver and chalk mixture darkens under exposure to light. However, while this was the birth of photography, the camera itself can be traced back much further. Before the invention of photo! graphy, there was no way to preserve the images produced by th! ese cameras apart from manually tracing them. The first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography was built by Johann Zahn in 1685, though it would be almost 150 years before technology caught up to the point where this was possible. Early photographic cameras were essentially similar to Zahn's model, though usually with the addition of sliding boxes for focusing. Before each exposure a sensitized plate would be inserted in front of the viewing screen to record the image. Jacques Daguerre's popular daguerreotype process utilized copper plates, while the calotype process invented by William Fox Talbot recorded images on paper....Show more