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In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo—a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.
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Treated a sliver plated sheet of copper with iodine to give it a special shine. Afterwards it was developed with mercury vapor and salt
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In 1851, Frederick Scoff Archer, an English sculptor, invented the wet plate negative . Using a viscous solution of collodion, he coated glass with light-sensitive silver salts. Because it was glass and not paper, this wet plate created a more stable and detailed negative.
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In 1879, the dry plate was invented, a glass negative plate with a dried gelatin emulsion. Dry plates could be stored for a period of time.
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In 1889, George Eastman invented film with a base that was flexible, unbreakable, and could be rolled. Emulsions coated on a cellulose nitrate film base, such as Eastman's, made the mass-produced box camera a reality. You might know this as Kodak!
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In the early 1940s, commercially viable color films (except Kodachrome, introduced in 1935) were brought to the market. These films used the modern technology of dye-coupled colors in which a chemical process connects the three dye layers together to create an apparent color image.
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used a chemical process to print positive prints from exposed negatives in under a minute. This was the first instant camera
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Recorded pixel images continuously onto a floppy disk. It was a video movie that was recorded in single frames
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Had a memory card and a battery inside to keep the data in its memory. cost nearly 1,000 dollarss
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Today cameras have evolved to where you can upload them to your computer, share them, email them, post them, and take high quality photos that look like the real thing! Cameras are comtinuing to evolve to more high quality high tech advances.
