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The Brownie was a series of camera models made by Eastman Kodak and first released in 1900. [1]It introduced the snapshot to the masses by addressing the cost factor which had meant that amateur photography remained beyond the means of many people; [2] the Pocket Kodak, for example, would cost most families in Britain nearly a whole month's wages.
Kodak developed the first megapixel sensor in a 2/3 inch format, which was marketed in the Videk Megaplus Camera in 1987. [201] In 1991, the KAF-1300, a 1.3 megapixel sensor, was used in Kodak's first commercially sold digital camera, the DCS-100. [202] The company began producing its first CMOS image sensors in 2005. [203]
In 1991, Kodak brought to market the Kodak DCS (Kodak Digital Camera System), the beginning of a long line of professional Kodak DCS SLR cameras that were based in part on film bodies, often Nikons. The Kodak DCS was the first commercially available Digital SLR (DSLR) It used a 1.3 megapixel sensor, had a bulky external digital storage system ...
In 1839, the daguerreotype photographic process invented in France was introduced into the United States by an Englishman named D.W. Seager, who took the first photograph of a view of St. Paul’s Church and a corner of the Astor House in Lower Manhattan in New York City.
If your employee came to you in 1975 and told you he'd invented the digital camera, what would you do? If you were Kodak, the answer was to effectively shove him in a closet and hope the product ...
The Instamatic 100, the first Instamatic sold in the US, with single flashbulb attached. The lead designer for the Instamatic program was Dean M. Peterson (original design by Alexander Gow), also later known for most of the innovations in the point-and-shoot camera revolution of the 1980s. They were the first cameras to use Kodak's new 126 format.
The first Kodak came pre-loaded with film and the customer returned the camera to Kodak for processing and to be reloaded with film for the customer. In 1900, a Yale plate box camera cost US$2 (about $76.00 in 2024 [1] dollars). and a Kodak rollfilm box sold for US$1 (about $38.00 in 2024 [1] dollars)
Kodak also sold 8 mm movie cameras starting from 1932 under the Ciné-Kodak Eight sub-brand. The first Eights included the Ciné-Kodak Eight, Model 20, which had a 13 mm (1 ⁄ 2-in) f /3.5 lens; the Model 25, which closely resembled the 20, but was equipped with a faster f /2.7 lens; and the Model 60, which had an even faster f /1.9 lens which ...