Who invented the camera?
Many would say that George Eastmann invented the camera(roll-film camera) in 1888.( But actually, somebody else made the camera first–that is, first camera that was small and portable enough to be practical for photography was built by Johann Zahn in 1685.) Some say the first ‘camera’ was designed before Columbus. It was by simple deduction that an artist noticed a faint image on the opposing wall of a small building where a small hole was in the lighted side of the building. He worked on a lens that could be placed in a similar hole of another building and he noticed that the image on the opposite wall was rather clear, color and all, although upside down. He then proceeded to use oil paints that were in use to paint portaits at the time. He simply mixed the oils to match the colors and painted directly onto the image he was looking at. Todays cameras do the same thing minus the oil paint. Film cameras have replaced the oils with both silver halide salts and dyes. Digital cameras sim
