In 1888, Eastman Kodak patented roll movie and launched the Kodak No. 1 field digicam. The corporate’s enterprise mannequin — promoting movie, then processing and printing the images taken on that movie for his or her customers — made images obtainable to the plenty for the primary time. Earlier than then, images was a sophisticated course of requiring data of chemistry and experience working large, cumbersome tools.
Later, when Kodak launched the Brownie in 1900 and offered it for a greenback, images went absolutely mainstream. The corporate dominated the movie gross sales and growth market through the twentieth century and efficiently marketed its automated cameras as essential to capturing fleeting moments — at house and on trip.
However digital digicam gross sales started to outpace movie digicam 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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