Cameras were available using dry gelatine plates since the 1870s, but it was not till George Eastman who developed paper film in 1885, and then celluloid film, was the first simple camera produced. It was called the "Kodak", a simple box camera with a fixed lens.
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Many names predate Kodak. Anthony (1842), Voightlander (1840's), Lerebours (1840's), American Optical Co.(before 1866), Scovill (at least as early as 1860's), dozens, perhaps hundreds more. The earliest US brand name was probably E. Anthony, but Alexander Wolcott took out the first US Patent on a camera in 1840, and produced at least some examples with his name impressed upon them.
Generally agreed to be the Kodak roll film camera, invented by George Eastman who eventually formed Eastman Kodak Company.
No camera obscura did this.
Things that you are photographing reflect it.
The Apple Quicktake camera was invented by Steven J Sasson and others with the Eastman Kodak company and was introduced in 1994 in association with Apple Computer. The camera was the first consumer digital camera.
The first camera was made by Alhazen, it was made around 1000AD! It was a Pinhole camera. He was born in Basra, Iraq ***This was not a camera in the modern sense. It did not produce photographic images of any sort as the application of silver salts for imaging was not discovered until around the 17th century. It was not until appx. 1826 that the first permanent image was made.
The box camera called The Brownie was made by the Eastman Kodak Company.
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The name of the first camera is camera obscura and is described to be the foundation on which most modern cameras are based on. Johann Zahn made the first camera, in 1685.
See discussion page to see why "Kodak" is not the correct answer to this question. There are no candidates which fit the whole question. No company's first camera was both a box camera and named No. 1.
Steven Sasson as an engineer at Eastman Kodak bult the first digital camera.
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