| 1727 | The discovery that silver nitrate changes | 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. |
| 1814 | The camera obscura is developed | 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. |
| 1837 | The 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. |
| 1841 | Making 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 gelatin dry plate silver bromide process, which made it possible to take a picture and develop it later. |
| 1888 | The invention of the roll-film camera | George Eastman invented the first roll-film camera. |
| 1948 | The Polaroid camera is marketed | The Polaroid allowed people to take a photo and have it developed immediately, right from the camera. |
| 1963 | Colored film is introduced | Polaroid came out with the first colored film. |
| 1980 | The first consumer camcorder is released | Sony put out the first consumer camcorder, allowing people to record their memories in real time. |
| 1974 | The first digital camera is developed | The Sasson Company built the first digital camera. |
| 1984 | The first digital camera is marketed | Canon put out the first digital camera for the public, which was later improved by Pixar. |
| 1990 | The first camera phones (1990's) | The camera phone technology was first used in Japan, but it quickly spread around the world. |
| 2001 | The 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. |
| 2012 | Wireless 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. |
