The history of the camera can be traced much further back than the introduction of photography . Cameras evolved from the camera obscura , and continued to change through many generations of photographic technology, including daguerreotypes , calotypes , dry plates , film , and digital cameras . History of the camera hotographic cameras were a development of the camera obscura , a device possibly dating back to the ancient Chinese [1] and ancient Greeks , [2] [3] which uses a pinhole or lens to project an image of the scene outside upside-down onto a viewing surface. An Arab physicist, Ibn al-Haytham , published his Book of Optics in 1021 AD. He created the first pinhole camera after observing how light traveled through a window shutter. Ibn al-Haytham realized that smaller holes would create sharper images. Ibn al-Haytham is also credited with inventing the first camera ...