Timeline of photography

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TIMELINE OF PHOTOGRAPHY

Transcript of Timeline of photography

TIMELINE OF

PHOTOGRAPHY

The discovery that silver nitrate

changes, 1727Johann Heinrich Schulz discovered that a substance called silver nitrate would change colour when exposed to light. This paved the way for the first pictures

to be taken and processed.

The camera obscura is developed, 1814

Joseph Niepce developed 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.

The Daguerreotype was invented, 1837

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.

Making multiple copies possible,

1841William Henry Talbot developed the Calotype process. This made it possible to

make multiple copies of the same picture.

Taking pictures gets easier,

1851With the new Collodion process, cameras only needed a few seconds of light

exposure to make a picture.

Film is made easier to handle,

1871Up until this time pictures had to be developed immediately after being taken. Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process,

which made it possible to take a picture and develop it later.

The invention of the roll-film camera,1888

George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera.

The Polaroid camera is marketed,

1948

The Polaroid allowed people to take a photo and have it developed immediately, right from the camera.

Coloured film is introduced,

1963Polaroid came out with the first coloured film.

The first consumer camcorder is

released,

1970Sony put out the first consumer camcorder, allowing people to record their

memories in real time.

The first digital camera is developed,

1974The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.

The first digital camera is marketed,

1984Canon put out the first digital camera for the public, which was later improved

by Pixar.

The first camera phones,

1990The camera phone technology was first used in Japan, but it quickly spread

around the world.

The Easy Share camera comes into

play,

2001Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera, which made it easy to snap

pictures and download them to the computer.

Wireless cameras are developed,

2012Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in

order to download and share the pictures.