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Eastman Kodak Company was decided in Polaroid's favor in 1985, [287] and after a short period of appeals, Kodak was forced to exit the instant camera market immediately in 1986. [288] On October 12, 1990, Polaroid was awarded $909 million in damages. [ 200 ]
George Eastman (July 12, 1854 – March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll film camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the ...
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.
Eastman's first camera, the Detective, was created in 1886. Only 50 were made, and did not sell well. Soon after in 1888, Eastman created a superior model, the Eastman Kodak camera to replace his poorly selling Detective. The Kodak inspired the slogan "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest."
Whilst Kodak films for still cameras continue to be manufactured by Eastman Kodak in Rochester, New York, US since its Chapter 11 bankruptcy they are now sold and marketed by Kodak Alaris, a separate company controlled by the Kodak UK Pension fund based in Hertfordshire, UK. [101]
The Cirkut is a rotating panoramic camera of the type known as "full rotation".It was patented by William J. Johnston in 1904 and manufactured by Rochester Panoramic Camera Company starting in 1905; during that same year, the company was acquired by Century Camera Co. (which itself was owned by Eastman Kodak at the time). [1]
The Ciné-Kodak was the first movie camera for 16 mm, manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company and introduced in 1923. [1] It was intended for home movie making. Kodak released additional models, including magazine-loading cameras as the Magazine Ciné-Kodak line and a line of 8 mm cameras under the Ciné-Kodak Eight sub-brand.
The Kodak Panoram camera was a roll-film swing-lens panoramic camera made in Rochester, New York, USA by Eastman Kodak between 1899 and 1928. Background [ edit ]