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The first camera would have been the camera obscura. The camera obscura has been known to scholars since the time of Mozi (around 480 BCE) and Aristotle (around 350 BCE). A camera obscura is a room or a box with a hole in one side through which light passes, causing an inverted image to be projected onto the a wall of the room or back of the box.
In 1039 AD an Arabian scholar, Alhazen, wrote the first clear description and analysis of the device. In 1550 a lens was fitted to into the hole of a camera obscura. Over the years following various items were added such as a diaphragm to sharpen up the image and a mirror was added to make the images upright. Starting in about 1676 a portable camera was available. It was in the 1800s that the first practical camera came about. in 1826 Frenchman Nicephore Niepce used a camera obscura for Photography for the first time. 1856 saw the first camera that took small images of live subjects. George Eastman, an American, produced the first box 'brownie' hand held camera bought by the general public.
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It was only in 1855 that you could get a photo taken and printed properly, but this doesn't mean that you could not take a photograph earlier. In 1817 a gentleman inventor named Nicéphore Niépce made a small and primitive camera from which he succeeded in taking a partial photo of low quality. This was the birth of the camera as we know it.
Cameras were actually developed over time rather than having been invented by just one person. Nicephore Niepce used what is known as a bitumen to create the first actual photograph in 1825. The first portable camera was built by Louis Daguerre in 1837. The first camera that was practical for everyday use was invented by George Eastman in 1888.
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∙ 15y agoJohann Zahn made the first portable camera but an Iraqi scientist by the name of "Ibn al-Haytham" made the first REAL camera. He called it the "camera obscura". Then an Irish scientist Robert Doyle and his assistant Robert Hooke made the portable camera obscura.
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Who invented the lightweight camera?
George Eastman invented the lightweight camera.
Who invented the brownie camera?
George Eastman who worked for Kodak Eastman Co.
What was the first mass-marketed camera?
Generally agreed to be the Kodak roll film camera, invented by George Eastman who eventually formed Eastman Kodak Company.
Who invented the first camera in the 1900s?
The first camera was invented long before the 1900s. George Eastman invented the "Kodak" camera, the first camera marketed to the general public, in the 1900s.
Earlier cameras were heavy he invented a lighter camera and was the first one to use roll of a film?
George Eastman
Who was the first to use Kodak camera?
George Eastman invented a Kodak camera
Who invented the Kodak box camera?
George Eastman
Was the Kodak camera invented by George Kodak or George stevenson or George Eastman?
George Eastman
Who invented a small camera?
George Eastman invented the small camera
Who invented the lightweight camera?
George Eastman invented the lightweight camera.
Who inveneted the camera Johann Zahn or George Eastman?
IT's Johann Zahn because he is the first one to build or make a camera.
Who invented the brownie camera?
George Eastman who worked for Kodak Eastman Co.
Who invented camera film?
George Eastman in 1889.
Who invented first camera and when?
George Eastman, 1888.
How many things has george eastman invented?
he invented the Kodak camera
When did george eastman invent the first gas powered motor?
George Eastman is the founder of Kodak. He invented camera film.
Did the wright brothers invent the Kodak camera?
No, the Kokak camera was invented by George Eastman in 1888.
