When did the camera first appear?

Frenchman Joseph Nicéphore Niépce invented the first camera in 1816. According to Beaumont Newhall's "The History of Photography," the creation of the camera was documented in letters to his brother.

His prototype was used to take the first photograph, which captured the view out the window of his residence in Le Gras, France, in 1826. Niépce worked on the photograph for at least eight hours.

Niépce collaborated with Parisian painter Louis-Jacques-Mande Deguerre in 1829, seeking to decrease the long exposure time required by his prior discovery. This resulted in the invention of the daguerreotype, the first practical form of photography.

When did the video camera first appear?

The history of the video camera is shrouded in mystery. Thomas Edison, an American inventor, got a patent for his kinetograph, an early video camera, in the 1890s and was acknowledged as its inventor.

According to "The First Film," a 2015 documentary, artist Louis Le Prince recorded a film with a video camera of his own design in Leeds in 1888, two years before Edison's creation. Le Prince inexplicably vanished before arriving in the United States and was never discovered. According to a BBC entertainment article, Le Prince's wife Lizzie accused Edison of orchestrating his assassination.