Taking pictures throughout one’s life has been a part of American culture for a little less than 200 years now. The camera was first introduced in the United States in the early 1800s and was made for personal use later in the century. From the time it was first put into the American market through the present, the camera and the technology of the camera has changed significantly. Also, with the camera, the items that hold the photographs have changed a lot as well. For example, picture frame lighting is now available to highlight the photographs they hold and there is also a technology called a led picture light which really emphasizes the photograph. The art light is an item that most certainly has changed with the changes that have come with the camera. However, it is the camera that has dictated these modifications of the frames.

The first accepted version of the camera was invented in 1814. The big, clunky machine was used to take still life pictures in black and white using a grey scale. The photographs almost always were developed scratchy and faded looking, but for the time, this machine was very impressive. No one probably could have imagined how photography would have been altered over the next 200 years.

The next big accomplishment in photography came with the introduction of color to the photographs in the time around 1861. In fact, some photographs from the American Civil War were taken in color. It took awhile for color cameras to be readily available to the public, so for the next thirty years, color photographs were still a pretty novel, revolutionary technology.

A change in the way photography was taken occurred at the time the disposable camera was invented. This camera enabled travelers to take less expensive cameras on vacations without carrying a big, expensive one with them instead. Also, many of these disposable cameras were made to be waterproof, so many Americans could take photographs underwater on a snorkeling or scuba diving trip.

Following the cheap camera was the introduction of the digital camera. This made it so that photographs could be taken and then loaded into the computer which could be sent to people via the internet or they could be sent to most drug stores to be developed at a specific time, usually set by the customer. This new technology revolutionized the way people saved and developed their photographs.

Finally, in the past ten years there have been many new additions to the camera technology. Cell phones now have a picture-taking capability as part of them. Also, there is such thing as high definition photographs, which makes the photograph even better looking than it already was before this digital technique. Probably the newest thing to the world of photography is the camera that has a view on both sides of it for types of people who do not want to have to rely on strangers to take a picture for them and their friends. With all of these advancements coming over the course of a small time frame, it will be interesting, in the upcoming decade, to see what other changes will be made in this market.