Camera and how it came into existence

                                                             Who built the first camera?

Alphonse Giroux created a daguerreotype camera in 1839, which was the first photographic device to be manufactured for mass production. With each camera and its attachments costing 400 francs, Giroux and Daguerre secured a deal to manufacture the devices in France.

Many people are involved in the history of the modern camera. Some of the individuals spent a decade working to develop a camera. The inventors worked hard to create a better camera than before. In his work titled “Book of Optics,” Iraqi scientist and writer Ibn described a mechanism that resembled a camera in many ways, signaling the start of the thousand-mile journey involved in the design of the modern camera. In reality, camera quality continues to improve daily.

Handflex Reflex Camera

Johann Zahn, a German author, proposed a design for what is now known as a handheld reflex camera in 1685. However, no inventor physically realized the camera until 1816, when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce constructed a prototype.

The Photographic Camera

While historians generally accept that the first photographic camera was developed in 1816 by Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the camera’s origin relied on centuries of contributions. Niépce created photographic images onto silver chloride-lined paper, and the oldest extant photograph is one he made around 1826. The original shot is still on exhibit at the University of Texas at Austin.