In 1888, Eastman Kodak patented roll movie and launched the Kodak No. 1 field digital camera. The corporate’s enterprise mannequin — promoting movie, then processing and printing the images taken on that movie for his or her customers — made pictures out there to the lots for the primary time. Earlier than then, pictures was a sophisticated course of requiring data of chemistry and experience working huge, cumbersome tools.
Later, when Kodak launched the Brownie in 1900 and bought it for a greenback, pictures went totally mainstream. The corporate dominated the movie gross sales and improvement market throughout the twentieth century and efficiently marketed its computerized cameras as essential to capturing fleeting moments — at dwelling and on trip.
However digital digital camera gross sales started to outpace movie digital camera gross sales within the early 2000s, and Kodak did not sustain. They filed for chapter in 2012 however do nonetheless exist and promote movie, albeit to a a lot smaller market.
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