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  A Chinese philosopher named Mozi observed that when light goes through a pinhole in a wall in a dark room, he could see the world flipped.
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  French artist Louis Daguerre came up with a way to store photos by using a copper plate with chemicals to treat it.
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  The first ever portable camera.
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  The first 33mm still camera. Made by Oskar Barnack.
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  The first camera able to print a photo in about a minute. Developed by Edwin Land
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  Steven Sasson develops the first digital camera.
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  This camera takes 27 digital pictures then it is pretty much useless. This was developed by Fujifilm.
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  Japan was the first country to implement a camera on to their cell phones. They were also sending pictures too
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  Similar to J Phones, Apple, Android, and other brands released phones that have a camera with far better camera specs and continue to get better and better over time.
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  Apple released a new phone with better than before cameraphone specs.