Wet plate cameras were infant changed from previous designs, though there were some models, such as the sophisticated Dubroni of 1864, where the sensitizing and developing of the plates could Camera Cases be carried out inside the camera itself rather than in a disunited darkroom. Other cameras were fitted with multiple lenses for bureaucratic cartes de visite. It was during the wet plate era that the call of bellows for focusing became widespread.

The first colour photograph was made by James Clerk Maxwell, with the help of Thomas Sutton, in 1861