When Was The Camera Invented And By Whom?

There are different versions of the camera inventions. The first camera invented was named camera obscura. It was invented by the Ibn al-Haytham who was a scientist of Iraq in 1015-1021. this camera was very old fashioned, that have a dark box, and via the double convex lenses light was enter into that dark box, which make the image on  a glass or paper of different types of objects.After that in 1660s a portable camera was invented by the Robert Hooke and Robert Boyle, who was the English scientists.

Then in 1685, there was another camera invented by Johann Zhan, that camera was more sophisticated and portable and quite sufficient for the general photographs.
After that Johann Heinrich Schultz has taken first picture via a wooden box camera that was sliding in 1826, and this camera was invented in Paris by Vincent Chevalier and Charles in 1724.

In 1861, the first color picture was taken by the James clerk Maxwell.
Later on with the passage of time, there came many other new and sophisticated cameras. With the advancement of technology, the digital cameras came in the market and many more.

By james clark Maxwell 1685

4th - 5th Centuries B.C. Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera.

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