A Eastman Kodak Company é uma empresa multinacional dedicada ao design, produção e comercialização de equipamentos fotográficos profissionais, amadores e para as áreas de saúde. Foi fundada por George Eastman, o inventor do filme fotográfico, em 1888.
A nova câmera podia ser transportada para qualquer lugar com facilidade. Era pré-carregada com filme suficiente para cem poses. Após a exposição, retornavam a Rochester, onde o filme era revelado.
Em 1884, a parceria de Eastman e Strong formou a nova companhia Eastman Dry Place and Film Company. Em 1889, formou-se a Eastman Company e, a partir de 1892 passou a se chamar Eastman Kodak Company e passou a distribuir mundialmente seus produtos. Isso precisou, logicamente, de uma forte campanha publicitária.Henry A. Strong
Em 1900, centros de distribuição foram estabelecidos na França, Alemanha, Itália e outros países da Europa. Uma unidade no Japão estava sendo considerada ao mesmo tempo em que a unidade do Canadá era construída.
Desde 1900 já fazia câmeras fotográficas modernas na época. A Kodak produziu sua primeira câmera digital na década de 1990. O software da companhia chama-se EasyShare.
Hoje, a Kodak possui operações de manufatura na América do Norte, América do Sul, Europa e Ásia, e os produtos Kodak estão disponíveis em praticamente todos os países.
Em 2012, segundo o The Wall Street Journal a empresa estaria se preparando para solicitar sua falência, o que se confirmou em 19 de janeiro de 2012, quando a Kodak apresentou perante um tribunal de Nova Iorque um pedido de concordata para reorganizar seus negócios
Selected Cameras
George Eastman House Technology Archive 64 Selected Objects
Casa do Oscar Atualmente
Cundall, Joseph
English (1818-1895)
TITLE ON OBJECT: Highlanders
ALBUM TITLE: "The Photographic Album for the Year 1857"
June, 1856
PUBLISHER: Photographic Exchange Club
toned albumen print from collodion negative
24.0 x 19.8 cm.
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 31958
79:1992:0009
INSCRIPTION: (printed on adjoining page) "Highlanders Photographed by Joseph Cundall" (passage from W.H. Russell's --Action at Balaklava--) "Taken on Collodion, June, 1856; weather, fine; Exposure ten seconds; developed with Pyrogallic Acid." "Lens by Ross; focal length fifteen inches; diameter four and a half inches; Diaphram one inch. Printed by ordinary method, toned with gold."
NOTES: Catalogued 1/91, MMC. For full passage by Russell, refer to album.
portrait, males
dress, highlander
Eastman, George
American (1854-1932)
DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Street scene with man on bicycle
SERIES TITLE: "Wyoming 1907"
September 1907
negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose roll film
3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.
George Eastman Collection; Gift of Eastman Kodak Co.
87:0888:0018
NOTES: This negative is likely to have been made with Eastman's Folding 3A Autographic Special. Cataloged 6/89, DZ, SB, GD. Brownie Starflash
OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Coca-Cola Brownie Starflash
SEE ALSO: Startech Camera
INTRODUCTION DATE: Mar. 1957
PRODUCTION DATES: March 1957-June 1965
FILM TYPE: 127 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 1-5/8 x 1-5/8in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $8.50
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Eyelevel rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Dakon with rotary shutter
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes
NOTES:
Also made with red body, 1958-1960, and with white or blue body,
1958-1962.
Model with bright red body and Coca-Cola decal, 1959-1961.
"Molded plastic body, optical direct vision finder"
Built-in flash reflector for M-2 bulbs (US) or "capless"
bulbs (Europe).
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"This camera was supplied in an outfit for close-up photography as the
Kodak Startech camera." (Coe: 54)
OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00053
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 2457
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. p.54.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//
Magniscope
OBJECT TYPE: Projector
MANUFACTURER: E.H. Amet Co.
INVENTOR: E.H. Amet Co.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, Il, Waukegan
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Amet Magniscope
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1894
PRODUCTION DATES: 1894-
IMAGE SIZE: 18 x 24 mm
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: film, silent
NOTES:
One of the earliest projectors for Standard Edison 35mm films;
Hand-cranked wheel operates film advance; Projecting light powered
by battery, electricity, or by calcium. Uses either reel (supply and
take-up spool) or rack (spool bank) feed for films. According to Amet
brochure "The Magniscope ... Packed in a shipping case weighs about 90
pounds; with Rack and Resistance Coil, 118 pounds.
The Magniscope is furnished with a regular Darlot lens, which makes a
picture at forty feet 5 feet by 6 feet 10 inches; the Wide Angle at
same distance, makes a picture about 6x9 feet.
The feed mechanism of The Magniscope is such that the film is entirely
free from friction or tension. The film, when once set, may be run
for an indefinite time, amd will not change its position. It is
entirely free from the waltz motion such as the Biograph, Vitascope,
Phantoscope, Etc. Consequently, people watching The Magniscope picture
pictures will always enjoy themselves, for they are not made seasick
by the clear, steady pictures this machine projects."
MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: film
OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E11045.00002
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
White, Minor. --Image. Lyrical & Accurate.-- Rochester, NY: George Eastman House, 1956_(October). 182-185.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection.//
Dual dissolve magic lantern, (nickel plated body, 17 in H.)
OBJECT TYPE: Projector
MANUFACTURER: Handy, A.D.
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, MA, Boston
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: A.D. Handy dual magic lantern
IMAGE SIZE: 8.8cm X 8.8cm
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: magic lantern
NOTES:
Vertical stack biunnial dissolving lantern; nickel and wood body with
polished brass Bausch & Lomb lens. Sliding shutter for dissolve.
Dimensions: 42.5cm H X 15.8cm W X 43.8cm L
with box: 48.8cm H X 18.8cm W X 59.5cm L
MATERIAL VIEWED/PROJECTED: glass
