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The first camera was invented in 1816 by Louis Le Prince. -
Near the 1820s, Nicéphore Niépce first managed to fix an image that was captured with a camera, but required over several days of exposure in the camera were required and the earliest results were very crude. -
Near the 1830s, Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce became the first to produce an image that didn't fade immediately. To do this, Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen. -
The Voigtländer Daguerreotype camera was introduced by Peter Wilhelm Friedrich Voigtländer in 1840. It is historically important for its introduction of the fast f:3.7 Petzval lens. It was 15 times faster than the lenses Daguerre used in his constructions. -
There wasn't much improvement in the 1850s, but there's a lot of room for it. Cameras became more and more portable. -
Nothing much happened in 1860-1869, but the cameras became more mobile and lighter. -
Le Phoebus 1870 The "Le Phoebus" camera was typical, it was built of mahogany wood with a brass-mounted lens in a rack-and-pinion focuser to adjust the projected image sharply onto a ground glass at the back. Most cameras like this used glass plates. -
Over the time of the past few decades, cameras have gotten smaller and have increased picture quality