Photography and D. Eastman

The photographs taken by the 19th century photograph show us a man with a tripod, a black rag and a rubber pear with which the bolt was opened.

The photographs taken by the 19th century photograph show us a man with a tripod, a black rag and a rubber pear with which the bolt was opened

All the equipment was cumbersome, heavy and uncomfortable. In 1877, the clerk of one of the New York banks, George Eastman, wishing to receive an increase in his meager earnings, took a cottage job - to cover the glass plates, which then applied photography, gelatinous layer. Labor was boring, and payment - a dollar for the evening. D. Eastman began to invent. Two years later he received a patent for a machine, which itself applied a layer on the glass. Plates became mass production. The photo carried away the bank employee, and he invented a simplified light camera with a frame size of 10 by 12 cm, organized its production and sale at $12 per piece. Photographers appreciated his invention, but the change of the record remained a troublesome affair.

The solution was found by another amateur photographer Hannibal Goodwin. In 1887, he proposed D. Eastman an elastic phototape of transparent nitrocellulose. The result was excellent: the photosensitive layer held better than on the glass. So the first film was born in the photo. D. Eastmain increased her photosensitivity and began to design a film camera. At the same time he came up with a shutter for short exposures. At the beginning of 1888, a film camera called Kodak No. 1 appeared in the history of photography. He weighed only 300 grams and was a wooden box measuring 15x8x10 cm. The shutter worked several exposures within a second. As for the staff, then there were 100 of them on the tape. The popularity of the first cameras was so great that D. Eastman had to open a factory for their manufacture. In the photo, D. Eastmain also has a priority in the organization of photo services. In the instructions to the apparatus it was said that anyone could bring the device to one of his offices scattered all over the country. There, the film will be extracted, developed, photographs taken, pasted onto cardboard, and the camera recharged.

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