Who invented the camera? What was the first camera in the world?

The mystery of pinhole imaging was discovered in the Mozi era in China, and the principle of pinhole imaging is still applicable to photography today. But the important reason that hindered photography at that time was that the method of saving images had not been discovered.

It is recognized that the first photo in the world was taken by Frenchman Nipps in 1827.

But now the world-recognized inventor of photography is French Daguerre.

Since 1829, Daguerre and Nipps have cooperated to develop and improve the sunshine photography invented by Nipps. The two were like-minded and brotherly, and began to cooperate for four years. In the cooperation, they encouraged and inspired each other, and the new photography method became more and more mature.

1837, Daguerre successfully invented a practical photography called Daguerre photography.

Daguerre photography is the first successful photography method in the world. Its basic idea is to expose a copper plate with silver iodide on its surface, then steam it with mercury vapor and fix it with salt water to form a permanent image. Later, Daguerre made the world's first camera according to this method. His camera is basically the same as the camera we use today, which consists of lens, aperture, shutter, viewfinder and camera box. The lens is an important part of the camera, and the scene forms an image through the lens. It consists of lenses with different properties and shapes. Daguerre camera has only one focal length, which is f = 75mm；; Aperture is a device installed on camera lens to adjust luminous flux. At that time, the camera was equipped with four kinds of apertures: 4,/kloc-0,/kloc-0 and 16. Shutter is a device used to adjust how much light enters the lens; The viewfinder determines the range of taking photos; A black box is an opaque box, which is used to hold film. Daguerre's ingenious design has been used to this day.