2. The discovery that silver nitrate
changes, 1727
• 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. 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.
4. 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.
5. Making multiple copies possible 1841
• William Henry Talbot developed the Calotype process. This
made it possible to make multiple copies of the same picture.
6. Taking pictures gets easier 1851
• With the new Collodionprocess, cameras only needed a few
seconds of light exposure to make a picture.
7. Film is made easier to handle 1871
• 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. The invention of the roll-film
camera 1888
• George Eastman invented the first roll-film
camera.
9. The Polaroid camera is marketed
1948
• The Polaroid allowed people to take a photo and
have it developed immediately, right from the
camera.
10. Coloured film is introduced 1963
• Polaroid came out with the first coloured film.
11. The first consumer camcorder is released
1980
• Sony put out the first consumer camcorder,
allowing people to record their memories in
real time.
12. The first digital camera is
developed 1974
• The Sasson Company built the first digital
camera
13. The first digital camera is
marketed 1984
• Canon put out the first digital camera for the
public, which was later improved by Pixar.
14. The first camera phones 1990
• The camera phone technology was first used
in Japan, but it quickly spread around the
world.
15. The Easy Share camera comes into
play 2001
• Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera,
which made it easy to snap pictures and
download them to the computer.
16. Wireless cameras are developed 2012
• Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be
connected to a computer in order to
download and share the pictures.
