Many people are credited with having played a part in

inventing the camera. Like many inventions, camera

development went through many stages that included
many different people. To answer the question simply, two
men are responsible for having created the camera. The
following is a brief history of cultures, inventors, and
inventions that influenced the men, and what the two men
created so that the camera as we know it could come to
be.

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Johann Heinrich Schulze

The fundamental concept of the camera

The basics or fundamentals of camera obscura was

discovered by Alhazen (Ab Al al-asan ibn al-asan ibn
al-Haytham) when he invented the pinhole camera.
Alhazen even went on to explain why the image produced
by the pinhole camera was upside down. Alhazen was a
great scientist and is known as the Father of Modern
Optics by the scientific community.

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Joseph Nicephore Niepce.

Very early history of the camera: the first camera

The first idea for a camera-like device came from China

early in the fifth century. A Chinese man realized that a
process involving light, reflection, and a dark area would
produce an identical copy of the image being seen. Later,
Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered a process involving
silver nitrate that would later be used to develop the
camera. Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that by using
silver nitrate, he could create a black and white photo. The
chemistry of silver nitrate allowed the unexposed part of a
film to be white, while the exposed part to turn black.
However, everything would turn to black over time.
Without these two discoveries, the camera may not have
come about.

The earliest surviving photo taken by Joseph Nicephore Niepce,

1827.

Photographs

Photographs are the final product that the cameras

produce. In France, Joseph Nicephore Niepce used
previously developed camera-like devices, called obscure
camera, to capture images and print them as a
photograph. His experiments worked, but the photos he
took only lasted a few hours and took a very long time to
develop.

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Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre. Daguerre made big
improvements in the photography field and his photos were much
better than any previous camera ever produced.

Louis-Jacques-Mande and George Eastman

The two men listed above are the two men that are known
for their breakthroughs in camera development. Each of
the men made separate but important breakthroughs to
the camera that made the device work more efficiently.
Louis-Jacques-Mand Daguerre, in 1836, produced the
very first photographic machine that could capture images
better than any of the earlier camera devices before him.

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Photo taken by Daguerre in 1838 in Paris. It took 10 minutes of
exposure to create the photo.

George Eastmans contribution

George Eastman is important to the cameras history

because he perfected the idea of the film that had been
developed earlier. First, he used paper to develop the
images, but later, he would use celluloid film that would
efficiently capture and hold images. Eastman is also the
founder of Kodak cameras. He developed a camera with a
lens, and he sold that camera with film so that his
customers could take pictures of their favorite moments.
Eastmans Kodak camera and film came in 1885.