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Camera Obscura was Invented by an Arab scholar named Ibn al-Haytham, also known as Alhazen. He invented the camera obscura, the precursor to the pinhole camera, to demonstrate how light can be used to project an image onto a flat surface.
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The first portable camera was designed by Johann Zahn in 1685. This was the first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography.
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Photography, as we know it today, began in the late 1830s in France. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen light. This is the first recorded Image that did not fade quickly.
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In 1888 Eastman introduced the Kodak Camera, the first camera that was simple and portable enough to be used by large numbers of amateur photographers. The camera was sold with film sealed inside, and the whole unit was mailed back to Rochester for film processing and replacement. In 1900 Eastman introduced the less-expensive Brownie, a simple box camera with a removable film container, so that the whole unit no longer needed to be sent back to the plant.
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During World War II most photographers were "engaged" they fervently believed in America and in the American cause. Many of the photographers of the war came out of the 1930s tradition of social documentary photography. Documenting soldiers in war was an expansion of the photographers' prewar project of documenting the people of the United States. It was a continuing attempt to reaffirm the nation's democratic ideals and cultural values.
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Edwin Land was the founder of Polaroid. he first demonstrated the instant camera on february 21, 1947 at a meeting of the Optical Society of America in New York City. The camera contained a roll of positive paper with a pod of developing chemicals at the top of each frame. By 1948, the 4 lb. Polaroid Land Camera Model 95 was on sale at the Jordan Marsh department store in Boston for $89.75.
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The first professional digital camera was developed by Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson. The Kodak Digital Camera System (DCS) was essentially a modified Nikon F3 whose film chamber and winder were modified to make room for sensors. The camera had a built-in 1.3-megapixel Kodak CCD to capture images. The camera cost $20,000 and required an external data storage unit that the photographer needed to wear on a shoulder strap and was connected via cable.
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The first camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999. Before the launch, In 1993, Henderson created two prototypes of a “wireless picturephone technology” device called the Intellect. It was a portable product that designed to receive and display images and video from a message center wirelessly. Those two prototypes are now in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
