Camera TimelineLiberty Watts

1727 - The discovery that

silver nitrate changes

Johann Heinrich

Schulz discovered

that a substance

called silver nitrate

would change color

when exposed to

light. This paved the

way for the first

pictures to be taken

and processed.

1814 - The camera obscura is

developed

Joseph Niepcedeveloped the camera obscura and took the first photo with it. It wasn't ideal, though, because it took 8 hours of light exposure to make a picture, and the picture faded with time.

1837 - The Daguerreotype was

invented

Louis Daguerre

invented a new

way to take

pictures. It only

needed 30

minutes of light

exposure, and

the image didn't

fade with time.

1841 - Making multiple copies

possible

William Henry

Talbot

developed the

Calotype

process. This

made it possible

to make multiple

copies of the

same picture.

1851 - Taking pictures gets

easier

With the new

Collodion

process,

cameras only

needed a few

seconds of light

exposure to

make a picture.

1871 - Film is made easier to

handle

Up until this time pictures had to be developed immediately after being taken. Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatindry plate silver bromide process, which made it possible to take a picture and develop it later.

1888 - The invention of the

roll-film camera

George Eastman

invented the first

roll-film camera.

1948 - The Polaroid camera is

marketed

The Polaroid

allowed people

to take a photo

and have it

developed

immediately,

right from the

camera.

1963 - Colored film is

introduced

Polaroid came

out with the first

colored film.

1974 - The first digital camera

is developed

The Sasson

Company built

the first digital

camera.

1980 - The first consumer

camcorder is released

Sony put out the

first consumer

camcorder, allowing

people to record

their memories in

real time.

1984 - The first digital camera

is marketed

Canon put out

the first digital

camera for the

public, which

was later

improved by

Pixar.

1990 - The first camera phones

(1990's)

The camera

phone

technology was

first used in

Japan, but it

quickly spread

around the world.

2001 - The Easy Share camera

comes into play

Kodak put out

their Easy Share

digital camera,

which made it

easy to snap

pictures and

download them to

the computer.

2012 - Wireless cameras are

developed

Kodak put out

cameras that

didn't have to be

connected to a

computer in order

to download and

share the

pictures.