1. By Luke Baldwin

2.  Johann 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.

3. 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.

4.  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.

5.  William Henry Talbot developed the Calotype
process. This made it possible to make multiple
copies of the same picture.

6.  With the new Collodion process, cameras only
needed a few seconds of light exposure to
make a picture.

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

8.  George Eastman invented the first roll-film
camera.

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

10.  Coloured film is introduced.

11.  The Sasson Company built the first digital
camera.

12.  Sony put out the first consumer camcorder,
allowing people to record their memories in
real time.

13.  Canon put out the first digital camera for the
public, which was later improved by Pixar.

14.  The camera phone technology was first used in
Japan, but it quickly spread around the world

15.  Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera,
which made it easy to snap pictures and
download them to the computer.

16.  Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be
connected to a computer in order to download
and share the pictures.