17271727

• The discovery that silver nitrate changes colour.

• Johann Heinrich Schulz discovered that a substance called silver nitrate changes colour when exposed to light. This paved the way for the first picture to be taken and processed.

18141814

• The camera obscura is developed

• Joseph Niepce developed the camera obscura and took the first photo which wasn’t ideal though, because it took 8 hours of light exposure to make an image and the picture faded with time.

18371837

• The Daguerreotype was invented

• Louis Daguerre invented a new way to take pictures. It only needed 30 minutes light exposure, and the image didn’t fade with time.

18411841

• Making multiple copies possible

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

18511851

• Taking pictures gets easier

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

18711871

• Film is made easier to handle

• Richard Leach Maddox invented the gelatin dry plate silver bromide process which made it possible to take a picture and develop it later

18881888

• The invention of the roll-film camera

• George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera.

• He later became one half of the massive Eastman-Kodak enterprise.

19481948

• The Polaroid camera is marketed

• The Polaroid camera allowed people to take a photo and have it developed immediately straight from the camera

19631963

• Colour film is introduced

• Polaroid came out with the first colour film.

19741974

• The first digital camera is developed

• The Sasson Company built the first digital camera

19801980

• The first consumer camcorder is released

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

19841984

• The first digital camera is marketed

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

19901990

• The first camera phones (1990’s)

• The camera phone technology was first used in Japan but it quickly spread to the rest of th eworld

20012001

• The easy share camera comes into play

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

20122012

• Wireless cameras are developed

• Kodak put out cameras that didn’t have to be connected to a computer to take, download and share the pictures