Camera TimelineBy Jordan Wardle

1727 – Silver Nitrate

• 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.

1814 – Camera Obscura

• 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.

1837 - Daguerreotype

• 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.

1841 - multiple copies

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

1851 - Taking pictures gets easier 

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

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.

1888 - Roll-film Camera

• George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera

1948 – Polaroid Camera

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

1963 - Polaroid Colour!

• Polaroid came out with the first coloured film.

1974 - first digital camera

• The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.

1980 - Consumer Camcorder

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

1984 - The first digital camera is marketed

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

1990 - The first camera phones

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

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.

• Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures.2012 - Wireless cameras are developed