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Kodak: 130 years of history
From the invention of film stored in rolls to the creation of the first digital camera, Kodak has been one of the most innovative photography companies for more than a century. But it has struggled to remain competitive in the face of cheaper film produced in Japan and, later, digital cameras from China.
By Matthew Sparkes The Telegraph UK
10:14AM GMT 19 Jan 2012

1884 - American inventor George Eastman patents photographic film stored in a roll. Four years later he had perfected the first camera to take advantage of his invention.

1892 - The company which would eventually be called Kodak was founded in Rochester, New York. The meaningless name was chosen because it was impossible to mispronounce and was disimilar to any existing words.

1900 - The Brownie camera was launched with a price of $1, bringing photography to the mass market. The basic cardboard box took square images on 2 ¼ film.

1930 - The Eastman Kodak Company launched on the Dow Jones Industrial Average index, where it would remain for 74 years.

1969 - The film used on the Apollo 11 missions was manufactured by Kodak. Each double-perforated 70mm roll could capture 160 colour pictures or 200 black and white images.

1975 - Kodak was the first company to build a working digital camera. An Eastman Kodak engineer named Steven Sasson created the 3.6kg device that stored images on cassette tape, had a 0.01mp resolution and took 23 seconds to expose each image.

1976 - Kodak had a 90pc market share for photographic film and an 85pc share of camera sales in the US.

1994 - Apple launched one of the first consumer digital cameras, the QuickTake. It was actually designed by Kodak and had been released months before Apple's version in Japan under its own brand name. The camera took photos at a resolution of 640 by 480 pixels.

2004 - Kodak stopped selling film cameras in the face of increasingly popular digital alternatives.

2005 - Kodak was the largest seller of digital cameras in the US, with revenue reaching $5.7bn. By 2007 it had fallen to fourth place and by 2010 to seventh.

2009 - Kodak stopped selling 35mm colour film after 74 years of production.

2011 - Over the course of the year Kodak shares fell by more than 80pc as it struggled to maintain market share and was hit with huge pension costs for workers.

2012 - Kodak files for chapter 11 bankruptcy.
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9024539/Kodak-130-years-of-history.html

I hope this history does not get "buried" under discussion! Worth to read through!

What comes to QuickTake, this hilarious James Veitch's video is also worth to see =D
youtu.be/ISdpj_dNSwI

That's hilarious. :-))))))

I will make it an article :-)

I like the space on right and bottom. Kind of suggesting that the collection is going to grow in the future ;-)

Thanks Sami

wow, das ist eine beeindruckende Kamerasammlung!

Thanks Chrissy

Perfect job. Nice kit and arrangement

Thanks Jan

just imagine, I use only one compact camera, because I got so fed up carrying all those bodies and lenses.
I collected all my old analog camera´s and lenses, tomorrow I am going to sell them.
Very nice comp

I only carry one camera when out and about, so limited to the lens choice of the day, plus my mobile phone which is great for wide angle.

The old Nikon D80 is an excellent camera. I's like to see your photos taken using it. Some nice pieces of kit Gillian.

Will give it a whirl sometime soon :-)

Lovely collection, and nicely knolled

Thanks AS

Great selection you have Gillian do you still use any of them ?

Thanks Marj. Mostly use the Canon 550D SLR, two bodies, but have recently started using the Nikon D5100 SLR more, used to take this photo.

A cool collection, could be a duel between Nikon and Canon;-)

Thanks Gudrun. It frequently is :-)

even chosing a camera seems to be quite a struggle

:-) I love my Canon SLR