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Unit 9: Photography Techniques

Camera Timeline – Home Learning

By Rory Giddings

Find examples for each event. Add images of:

1. The actual cameras 2. Examples of images taken using that camera.

Take each event and date and add to a PowerPoint slide or Prezi. Deadline: Friday 19th September 2014

Task:

Date Event

1727 The discovery that silver nitrate changes 

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.

(Silver nitrates are a type of salt that is used as a light-sensitive type of coating for photographic films that consists of fine grains of silver, so that when it is exposed to light they are enabled to adjust/change the colours.)

1814The camera obscurer is developed. 

Joseph Niepce developed the camera obscurer 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.

1837The Daguerreotype was invented 

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.

1841Making multiple copies possible 

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 gelatine dry plate silver bromide process, which made it possible to take a picture and develop it later.

1888The invention of the roll-film camera: George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera. 

1948The Polaroid camera is marketed: 

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

1963Coloured film is introduced 

Polaroid came out with the first coloured film.

1974The first digital camera is developed :

The Sasson Company built the first digital camera.

1980The first consumer camcorder is released 

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

1984The first digital camera is marketed 

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

1990The first camera phones: (1990's) 

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

Photos taken with a Nokia 7250i camera phone. One of the first camera phones to ever be invented. The first camera

phone pictured below was first created in Japan.

2001The 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.

An image taken with the original Kodak Easy Share camera. It featured very low megapixels.

2012Wireless cameras are developed 

Kodak put out cameras that didn't have to be connected to a computer in order to download and share the pictures.

The rusting wreck of a ferris wheel in the abandoned ghost town of Pripyat, Chernobyl. This image was taken with a 2012 Kodak M750 Wi-Fi camera.

A 2012 Kodak M750 Wi-Fi camera