Camera Timeline

2. 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. 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 gelatin 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. Polaroid came out with the first colored film.

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

12. The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.

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.