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Johann Heinrich Schulz discovered that a substance called silver nitrate would change color when exposed to light. This paved the way for the first pictures to be taken and processed.
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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.
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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.
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William Henry Talbot developed the Calotype process. This made it possible to make multiple copies of the same picture
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With the new Collodion process, cameras only needed a few seconds of light exposure to make a picture.
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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.
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George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera
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The Polaroid allowed people to take a photo and have it developed immediately, right from the camera.
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Polaroid came out with the first colored film.
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Polaroid came out with the first colored film.
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The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.
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Canon put out the first digital camera for the public, which was later improved by Pixar.
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The camera phone technology was first used in Japan, but it quickly spread around the world.
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Kodak put out their Easy Share digital camera, which made it easy to snap pictures and download them to the computer.
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Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures.
