Most important parts of a camera are a shutter and a lens. The shutter takes care of a proper exposure time and the purpose of the lens is to project the subject on a film. It is the lens that makes the picture.
(Still I think, that the photographer has also something to do with it)
So simple and still exstremely complicated. For instace the lens, despite it´s importance could be replaced with "nothing". A tiny hole in the place of the lens will do.
The history of sophiticated lenses begun in 1840 when Johann Christoph Voigtländer in Vienna, Austria introduced the first calculated photographic lens. Today computers can carry of those calculations in a fraction of a second. The point however is, what to enter to an electrical brains.
