The document outlines the key developments in camera technology from 1727 to 2012. It describes some of the earliest photographic processes invented by Johann Schulz and Joseph Niepce which paved the way for capturing images but required long exposure times. Later developments by Louis Daguerre and William Henry Talbot made photographs easier to produce and allowed for copies. Advances like gelatin dry plates, roll film cameras, and Polaroid technology further simplified the photographic process. Digital cameras were then invented in the 1970s and 1980s and began to replace film cameras. Camera phones were introduced in the 1990s and wireless sharing of pictures became possible in the early 2000s.

1. Camera Timeline
Liberty Watts

2. 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.

3. 1814 - The camera obscura is
developed
 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. 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.

5. 1841 - Making multiple copies
possible
 William Henry
Talbot
developed the
Calotype
process. This
made it possible
to make multiple
copies of the
same picture.

6. 1851 - Taking pictures gets
easier
 With the new
Collodion
process,
cameras only
needed a few
seconds of light
exposure to
make a picture.

7. 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 gelatin
dry plate silver
bromide process,
which made it
possible to take a
picture and develop it
later.

8. 1888 - The invention of the
roll-film camera
 George Eastman
invented the first
roll-film camera.

9. 1948 - The Polaroid camera is
marketed
 The Polaroid
allowed people
to take a photo
and have it
developed
immediately,
right from the
camera.

10. 1963 - Colored film is
introduced
 Polaroid came
out with the first
colored film.

11. 1974 - The first digital camera
is developed
 The Sasson
Company built
the first digital
camera.

12. 1980 - The first consumer
camcorder is released
 Sony put out the
first consumer
camcorder, allowing
people to record
their memories in
real time.

13. 1984 - The first digital camera
is marketed
 Canon put out
the first digital
camera for the
public, which
was later
improved by
Pixar.

14. 1990 - The first camera phones
(1990's)
 The camera
phone
technology was
first used in
Japan, but it
quickly spread
around the world.

15. 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.

16. 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.