The Olympians

GEORGE EASTMAN
THE FOUNDER OF KODAK

Joseph DiNunzio. George Eastman,

1914. Two-colour Kodachrome film.
Camera Obscura
 Camera = Latin for room
 Obscura = Latin for dark
 Experimented with over
the centuries by Mo-Ti,
Aristotle, Alhazen,
Leonardo Da Vinci,
Giovanni Battista Della Late 18th Century folding camera
obscura.
Porta, Johannes Kepler.
  Camera obscura as a drawing aid…

A camera lucida, a drawing aid. 19th Century.

Johannes Vermeer, A View of Delft, 1660-1661,

Oil on Canvas.
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Early Calotype camera from 1850
The Birth of Photography
 1839 – invented
simultaneously in Britain
and France
 British W.H. Fox Talbot
created the Calotype
approach
 French L.J.M Daguerre
created the Dauerreotype
approach.
 •1850’s Wet Collodion technique –
Scott Archer.

Three anonymous portraits from the 1860’s

 1860 George Washington

Wilson makes first “quick
pictures”
 1871 saw the invention of
the dry plate – Richard
Leach Maddox
 1888 Birth of Kodak and
snapshot photography
Left to right: 1860’s Tourist camera- glass dry plate
negatives, 1853 box camera and a 1860’s studio
camera.
Introducing George Eastman
Dry Plates
Kodak
Death of George Eastman
The Digital Age
 First Digital Camera- 1975, developed by Kodak.

 1987 first megapixel sensor

 1990 Kodak’s DCS camera improved to 1.54 megapixels
 1994 Apple brought out first digital
camera for consumer use
The Digital Age

 1999 Ricoh created first handheld video

camera to record moving images and sound
 Sony brings out Cybershot DSC_MD1 that
uses laser technology

 JPEG images
The introduction of 3D to cameras

 3D has become a
commercial success

 Slide and twin-camera bar

3D Imagery Now

 Fujifilm
Real 3D W1 and W3

 Kodak photo and

printer experience.
The Future.....
The Canon Wonder Camera