An early KodakEastman Kodak Company was started by and in 1881. They made their in. It began as the Eastman. The company made for. It changed from a partnership to a corporation in 1884. In 1888 it changed its name again to the Eastman Kodak Company. This is when they released their first hand-held called the Kodak.
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It used a roll of which the company had started making in 1885. It was a camera simple enough for anyone to take. Eastman Kodak re- photography and became an success story. But their success would not last.History At first photographers used glass plates they had to coat with an. But they had to be used within minutes of being coated. They also had to be into a picture right away. In 1878, Eastman successfully created dry plates that could be coated with a.
These could be used at the photographer's convenience. They did not require all the heavy equipment wet plates did. Eastman decided to go into selling them. He a machine to dry plates. In 1888, the company sold the first Kodak box cameras.
The was 'you press the button, we do the rest'. For $24 the camera came already loaded with film capable of taking 100 pictures. The camera was sent back to the factory where for $10 the film was developed into pictures.
These cameras first used paper but later turned to film. An indexing roller to hold film was invented by David Houston. It had square holes in the edge of the film to advance the film with no waste. But Eastman did not want to pay to his. So they bought his patent in 1899. Kodak kept making dry plates until that market dried up. Their main was in film and film developing papers and chemicals.
They made film for the industry, 16mm film for hobby and cameras of all kinds. In the mid- 1920s they came out with color film. In 1929 Kodak created motion picture film for adding sound to motion pictures. Problems. Kodak filmIn 1947 invented the. The camera could develop its own pictures inside the camera in 60 seconds.
Within five years Polaroid sold over a million cameras. Kodak took notice. Since Kodak held 80% of the market for photographic development, instant cameras were a real threat. Kodak quickly came out with their own instant camera. Land Kodak for $12 for using its technology. In 1990 Land won and Kodak quit making instant cameras. But they won only a fraction of what they said Kodak's action had cost them, and Land went out of business in 2001.Fujifilm, the photography company, began selling inexpensive film in the in the 1980s.
Since their film cost much less than Kodak's, by 1999 they had a large share of the film market. Kodak lost millions of dollars and had many. When became popular, Kodak quickly joined that market. By 1999 they were the second largest maker of digital cameras.
But they lost $60 on each one they sold.Kodak made so many that its dropped from $76 a in 1999 to $25 in 2004. They dropped out of the film manufacturing business. Finally Kodak was dropped from the. In 2012 the 131-year-company filed for. After selling off many of its products to other companies, Kodak came out of bankruptcy a much smaller company.
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