Were there cameras in the 1700s?

Question

Were there cameras in the 1700s?

Answer 1

No there werent cameras. Instead of Cameras they painted pictures.

Must have took a long time!!! lol

Answer 2

No.

There was a device called a camera obscura that could project a view of the outside world onto a wall but there was no way to record an image photographically, it was just a clever scientific device. Though I read that some painters may have used them to get perspectives right.

Answer 3

No

Answer 4

Yes, there were

Johann Zahn built one in 1685

Cameras would not be commonly available until more than a century later, though.

And it depends on what you mean by "camera".  The "Camera Obscura" was invented in the Middle East in the 11th century.