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The history of the camera began even before the introduction of photography. Cameras evolved from the camera obscura through many generations of photographic technology – daguerreotypes, calotypes, dry plates, film – to the modern day with digital cameras and camera phones.
The history of cameras traces back to ancient Greek and Chinese civilizations.
When was the camera invented? The first camera was invented in 1816 by French inventor Nicephore Niepce. His simple camera used paper coated with silver chloride, which would produce a negative of the image (dark where it should be light ).
Who Invented The Camera? Per the Nashville Film Institute , most historians agree that while the invention of the camera was ultimately the result of years of innovations, the first photographs printed on silver chloride-lined paper were created by the Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.
While Joseph Nicéphore Niépce invented the first photographic camera in 1826 or 1827, William Henry Fox Talbot created a process of capturing images using silver salts in the 1830s. The camera was the result of centuries of innovation and experimentation.
In 1826/27, using a camera obscura fitted with a pewter plate, Niépce produced the first successful photograph from nature, a view of the courtyard of his country estate, Gras, from an upper window of the house.
The invention of the camera is usually attributed to Frenchman Louis Daguerre - who was first to announce his invention in 1839, and gave his name to the first popular form of photograph – the Daguerreotype. The invention of the Daguerreotype was officially announced by François Arago, secretary of the French Academy of Sciences on January 07 1839.