Cameras have been around for a long time and have taught everyone important history events. This essay shows the history of who started the first camera and the effectiveness of how it was used in each decade. Using many sources there was a huge process that the camera went through before getting to the digital era of smartphones being the new cameras. Over the many decades it went through a lot of parts of reflective plates, chemicals and using lens to capture the shot. A lot of companies came out of using the plates and lens to really change the quality of how pictures came out to be. It now shows that people of this generation don’t really know how the camera came to be, and people just use it as an everyday tool and being grateful of the features of the smartphone camera.