Kodak camera
Cámara Kodak
- Date
- 1888 · confidence high
- Place
- Rochester, New York, United States
- Credited to
- George Eastman (Eastman Kodak)
- People
- 👤 George Eastman1854–1932
- Field
- Communication
What it is
Pre-loaded box camera with a roll for 100 photos that was returned to the factory for developing ('You press the button, we do the rest'). It turned photography into a mass pastime.
What it led to
- Amateur photography and the family album
- Consumer photochemical industry
- Photojournalism and snapshot culture
Built on
- Petzval portrait lens1840
- Gelatin silver-bromide dry plate1871
- Cooke triplet1893
- Photography of Daguerre and Talbot
Made possible
- Celluloid roll film1887–1889
- Cinematograph (cinema)1895
- Minox subminiature camera1936
- Celluloid roll film
- Brownie (1900)