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Inventor Nicéphore Niépce
Nicéphore started experimenting with photography in 1816. He would use his office window to print an image. This was a very long process and took about 8 hours. This is considered the first photographic image. -
Daguerreotype
The former partner of Niépce created a process that involved Daguerre where he took a silver plated sheet. When this sheet was given light it would produce an image. This invention pointed to cameras in the future. -
Gelatin Dry Plates
Richard Maddox created the very first gelatin dry plate. This created the first "instantaneous" picture. This invention pointed to not needing huge cameras to take pictures. -
George Eastman
George Eastman started producing film paper. Then George Eastman created the Kodak Camera. It was a box shape that had a focus lens and one shutter speed. The camera had enough film to create 100 pictures. These cameras were cheap and started the mass marketing of cameras. -
Polaroids
Oskar Barnack wanted to invent smaller cameras so everybody can have one. He created the Leica camera and even made a second model called the Leica 1. People followed this procedure and created smaller cameras. In 1948, Polaroid came out with the first instant camera.Then in 1960 Polaroids were considered the most popular camera. -
Digital Cameras
The first digital camera was created but never sold. This was until Kodak released the Kodak DCS digital camera. Eventually Digital cameras became a bit less common. -
Evolved
Cameras now are smaller than ever and very portable. Cameras can be taken anywhere but are pretty pricey now. -
Smartphone Cameras
Instead of huge boxes for cameras, people now mostly use what are called smartphone cameras. These are cameras on your phone, they are very small but mostly great quality. These are way more common then the older cameras.
