photography through the ages!

Homework

By Ross Cogdell

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.

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.

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.

Making multiple copies possible 1841

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

Taking pictures gets easier 1851

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

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.

The invention of the roll-film camera 1888

• George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera.

The Polaroid camera is marketed1948

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

Coloured film is introduced 1963

• Polaroid came out with the first coloured film.

The first consumer camcorder is released1980

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

The first digital camera is developed 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

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

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.

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.