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Wikipedia is not a neutral source! Even different language wikipedias have contradiction information. But since you insist on using the English wikipedia, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography
"The discovery of the camera obscura that provides an image of a scene dates back to ancient China. "
So the process that helped medieval artists make realistic paintings, camera obscura, the basis for a film camera, was invented in China long before medieval ages or anything Western.
"Long before the first photographs were made, Chinese philosopher Mo Di and Greek mathematicians Aristotle and Euclid described a pinhole camera in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE."
If you look at the articles for Mozi ("Mo Di"), Aristotle and Euclid, you'll see Mozi lived before the either two.
" In Russia, the first camera based on the theory of Daguerreotype was invented by Grekov back in 1840, that is, a year after the invention of photography. Alex Grekov also made experiments with photographs by the method of Talbot on the light-sensitive paper.
12. The first portrait by the electric light was made in 1879 by Levitsky, which required the exposure of 15 seconds. "
"15. The story of a digital photo begins with camera Mavica, produced by the company Sony in 1981. Mavica is almost a full SLR with interchangeable lenses and resolution of 570h490 pixels. But then it was considered a "static camera," the result of which was not the video but static images - shots. "
http://www.eurogallery.org/news/general-info/interesting-facts-about-the-history-of-photography-50/
http://old.iias.asia/article/pioneering-portraits-early-photography-japan
They were taking photographs in Japan also at least as early as 1840.
Many inventions in photography came from the West, but camera obscura and the world's first DSLR were invented in China and Japan, respectively. The first non-silver-plate camera also seems to be from Asia. Bellows camera is from Russia:
"In 1847, Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky designed a bellows camera which significantly improved the process of focusing. This adaptation influenced the design of cameras for decades and is still found in use today in some professional cameras. "
And the explanation why American companies got ahead in photographic technology can also be partially explained by the large scale immigration to America in the 1800's. library.thinkquest.org/20619/Chinese.html most immigrants were Chinese, skilled artisans and hard workers, largely employed by American companies. Who's to say they didn't contribute important skills that helped Kodak develop his photographic paper?
Inventions in photography have been made both in Asia and in the West. You can paint the history whichever color you like, but the truth is more like inventions were made both in Asia and in the West simultaneously and one after the other, and all those inventions put together brought us where we are today. If photography is all a Western invention, why is almost every camera and lens company in the world Asian? Canon, Nikon, Sony, Minolta, Ricoh, Pentax, Fujifilm, Asahi, Panasonic, Hitachi, Hoya, Olympus, Tamron, Samyang, Samsung, Sigma, are all Asian companies, just to name a few.
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