When and who invented cameras?

Answer 1

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.

Another answer

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.

Answer 2

The very primary camera obscura which was little and portable sufficient for practical use was made by sir Johann Zahn the year was 1685 and at that time it was not possible to save the images captured by these cameras but the only way was to trace them manually.

Answer 3

Nicephore Niepce was the first to record a still image from a camera. He did this around 1816. The camera device has been around since ancient Greece and China, though of course they didn't take pictures, they just reflected images.