At around 1000 AD, there were devices, which were invented that could project images from the pinholes and transform them into large surfaces. Such devices were known as Camera Obscura or pinhole cameras and were 
invented by Alhazen, who lived during the Middle Ages. The pinhole camera could only be used for viewing images and was not able to capture those images. In 1827, a Frenchman known as Joseph Nicephore Niepce was able to make the first photographic image using the pinhole camera. Niepce achieved this by placing an engraving on a bitumen coated metal plate that was then exposed to light. The plate was then dipped in a solvent until the image appeared. However, the image took long to appear and often faded away.
However, another scientist Louis Daguerre, invented new ways of capturing images that took less than half an hour to appear but did not fade away. Daguerre named the new method of photography “daguerreotype”. In this process, the images were fixed on a silver plated copper sheet. To create a light sensitive surface, the silver was polished and then iodine used to coat it. The plate was then placed in the pinhole camera, exposed to light and then dipped in silver chloride solution to form a long lasting image.
As time passed, several developments were made on the camera and in 1885, George Eastman begun producing camera film. Three years later the first Kodak cameras were sold and this made the camera to be accessible to the public.
