The Journey of Cameras: From Obscura to Smartphone

Bangalore: Now a day’s everyone of us capture lovely moments of our lives, indiscriminately with smartphone camera. Have you ever thought about the journey of cameras and how they reached your smartphone? Here is the fascinating story of camera form ‘camera obscura to the smartphone camera’.

1. Camera Obscura in 300 B.C.

The camera obscura is the first device which started the evolution of camera. This device is actually a dark room with a pin hole on the one side to enter light and produce an image inside the room. The image appeared upside down but it cannot be captured, you have to draw the image.

2. Daguerreotype in 1836

The Daguerreotype was the first successful photographic process. Louis Daguerre invented this camera in 1836 with the help of his partner Joseph Nicéphore Niépce.

Previously in the camera obscura, artists would manually trace the reflected image but in the Daguerreotype camera he used a copper plate with sliver coat to capture images.