Media timeline

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Media timeline

The discovery that silver nitrate changes ?Date 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.

The camera obscura is developedDate 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.

The Daguerreotype was invented. Date 1837

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

Making multiple copies possible.Date 1841

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

Taking pictures gets easier  in 1851

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

Film is made easier to handle date 1871.

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.

The invention of the roll-film camera date 1888.

George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera.

The Polaroid camera is marketed  1948.

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

Colored film is introduced date 1963.

Polaroid came out with the first colored film.

The first consumer camcorder is released date 1980.

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

The first digital camera is developed date 1974

The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.

The first digital camera is marketed 1984.

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

The first camera phones (1990's) date 1990

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

The Easy Share camera comes into play date 2001.

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

Wireless cameras are developed date 2012.

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