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The AZ255 is the perfect bridge camera to pursue your passion for photography. With 16 megapixels, 25X optical zoom and a wider angle lens than traditional models, this camera might just become your new best friend.

Introducing one of our best sellers, the KODAK PIXPRO AZ405 digital camera from our Astro Zoom Collection. A 40x ultra long zoom lens with optical image stabilization delivers crisp, clear 16 megapixel close-ups, 180 panorama or HD videos with the switch of a button.

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Introducing the FZ45 Friendly Zoom collection from the KODAK PIXPRO family of digital cameras. Compact, intuitive and oh so easy to use, the FZ45 is the perfect starter camera to take anywhere you go.

The KODAK PIXPR0 Orbit360 4K VR Camera adopts a minimalist approach to an all-in-one 360 VR camera, with two fixed focus lenses housed by a futuristic camera body. Each curved lens is designed to work in tandem, to capture full 360 4K video.

Kodak began as a partnership between George Eastman and Henry A. Strong to develop a film roll camera. After the release of the Kodak camera, Eastman Kodak was incorporated on May 23, 1892.[4] Under Eastman's direction, the company became one of the world's largest film and camera manufacturers, and also developed a model of welfare capitalism and a close relationship with the city of Rochester.[5] During most of the 20th century, Kodak held a dominant position in photographic film, and produced a number of technological innovations through heavy investment in research and development at Kodak Research Laboratories.[6][7] Kodak produced some of the most popular camera models of the 20th century, including the Brownie and Instamatic.[8][9] The company's ubiquity was such that its "Kodak moment" tagline entered the common lexicon to describe a personal event that deserved to be recorded for posterity.[10]

Kodak began to struggle financially in the late 1990s as a result of increasing competition from Fujifilm.[11] The company also struggled with the transition from film to digital photography, although Kodak had developed the first self-contained digital camera.[12] Attempts to diversify its chemical operations failed, and as a turnaround strategy in the 2000s, Kodak instead made an aggressive turn to digital photography and digital printing.[13] These strategies failed to improve the company's finances, and in January 2012, Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.[14][15][16]

In September 2013, the company emerged from bankruptcy, having shed its large legacy liabilities, restructured, and exited several businesses.[17] Since emerging from bankruptcy, Kodak has continued to provide commercial digital printing products and services,[18] motion picture film,[19] and still film,[20] the last of which is distributed through the spinoff company Kodak Alaris.[21] The company has licensed the Kodak brand to several products produced by other companies, such as the PIXPRO line of digital cameras manufactured by JK Imaging.[22] In response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Kodak announced in late July that year it would begin production of pharmaceutical materials.[23]

Eastman entered a partnership with Henry Strong in 1880 and the Eastman Dry Plate Company was founded on January 1, 1881, with Strong as president and Eastman as treasurer.[27] Initially, the company sold dry plates for cameras, but Eastman's interest turned to replacing glass plates altogether with a new roll film process. On October 1, 1884, the company was re-incorporated as the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company.[28] In 1885, Eastman patented the first practical film roll holder with William Walker, which would allow dry plate cameras to store multiple exposures in a camera simultaneously.[29] That same year, Eastman patented a form of paper film he called "American film".[30] Eastman would continue experimenting with cameras and hired chemist Henry Reichenbach to improve the film. These experiments would culminate in an 1889 patent for nitrocellulose film.[31] As the company continued to grow, it was re-incorporated several more times. In November 1889, it was renamed the Eastman Company and 10,000 shares of stock were issued for $100.[32] On May 23, 1892, another round of capitalization occurred and it was renamed Eastman Kodak.[4][33] An Eastman Kodak of New Jersey was established in 1901 and existed simultaneously with the Eastman Kodak of New York until 1936, when the New York corporation was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the New Jersey corporation.[34] Kodak remains incorporated in New Jersey today, although its headquarters is in Rochester.

In 1888, the Kodak camera was patented by Eastman. It was a box camera with a fixed-focus lens on the front and no viewfinder; two V shape silhouettes at the top aided in aiming in the direction of the subject. At the top it had a rotating key to advance the film, a pull-string to set the shutter, and a button on the side to release it, exposing the celluloid film. Inside, it had a rotating bar to operate the shutter. When the user pressed the button to take a photograph, an inner rope was tightened and the exposure began. Once the photograph had been taken, the user had to rotate the upper key to change the selected frame within the celluloid tape.[35]

The $25 camera came pre-loaded with a film roll of 100 exposures, and could be mailed to Eastman's headquarters in Rochester with $10 for processing. The camera would be returned with prints, negatives, and a new roll of film. Additional rolls were also sold for $2 to professional photographers who wished to develop their own photographs.[35] By unburdening the photographer from the complicated and expensive process of film development, photography became more accessible than ever before. The camera was an immediate success with the public and launched a fad of amateur photography.[33] Eastman's advertising slogan, "You Press the Button, We Do the Rest", soon entered the public lexicon, and was referenced by Chauncey Depew in a speech[33] and Gilbert and Sullivan in their opera Utopia, Limited.[36]

In the 1890s and early 1900s, Kodak grew rapidly and outmaneuvered competitors through a combination of innovation, acquisitions, and exclusive contracts. Eastman recognized that film would return more profit than the cameras that used them, and focused on control of the film market. This razor and blades model of sales would change little for several decades.[12][37] Larger facilities were soon needed in Rochester, and the construction of Kodak Park began in 1890.[34] Kodak purchased and opened several shops and factories in Europe, particularly in the United Kingdom. The British holdings were initially organized under the Eastman Photographic Materials Company. Beginning in 1898, they were placed under the holding company Kodak Limited.[38] An Australian subsidiary, Australia Kodak Limited, was established in 1908.[39] In 1931, Kodak-Path was established in France and Kodak AG was formed in Germany following the acquisition of Nagel.[40] The Brownie camera, marketed to children, was first released in 1900, and further expanded the amateur photography market.[41] One of the largest markets for film became the emerging motion picture industry. When Thomas Edison and other film producers formed the Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908, Eastman negotiated for Kodak to be sole supplier of film to the industry.[42] In 1914, Kodak built its current headquarters on State Street.[34] By 1922, the company was the second-largest purchaser of silver in the United States, behind the U.S. Treasury.[34] Beginning on July 18, 1930, Kodak was included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.[43]

Research projects led to a number of new Kodak products in the 1930s. At Kodak Research Laboratories, Leopold Godowsky Jr. and Leopold Mannes invented a three-color film which would be commercially viable. In 1935, the product was launched as Kodachrome.[59] The company also produced industrial high-speed cameras and began to diversify its chemical operations by producing vitamin concentrates and plastics.[34][60] In 1934, Kodak entered a partnership with Edwin Land to supply polarized lenses,[61] after briefly considering an offer to purchase Land's patents.[62] Land would later launch the Polaroid Corporation and invented the first instant camera using emulsions supplied by Kodak.[63]

After the American entry into World War II, Kodak ceased its production of amateur film and began supplying the American war effort at the direction of the War Production Board. The company produced film, cameras, microfilm, pontoons, synthetic fibers, RDX, variable-time fuses, and hand grenades for the government.[64]

Kodak reached its zenith in the post-war era, as the usage of film for amateur, commercial, and government purposes all increased. In 1948, Tennessee Eastman created a working acetate film, which quickly replaced nitrate film in the movie industry because it was non-flammable.[71] In 1958, Kodak began marketing a line of super glue, Eastman 910.[72] Its cameras were used by NASA for crewed and uncrewed space exploration.[73] In 1963, the first Instamatic cameras[b] were sold, which were the company's lowest-cost cameras to date. Annual sales passed $1 billion in 1962 and $2 billion in 1966.[34] Albert K. Chapman succeeded Thomas Hargrave as president in 1952, and was succeeded by William S. Vaughn in 1960. Louis K. Eilers would serve as president and CEO between 1969 and 1972.[34] In the 1970s, Kodak published important research in dye lasers,[74] and patented the Bayer Filter method of RGB arrangement on photosensors.[75]

During the Cold War, Kodak participated in a number of clandestine government projects. Beginning in 1955 they were contracted by the CIA to design cameras and develop film for the U-2 reconnaissance aircraft under the Bridgehead Program.[76][77] Kodak was also contracted by the National Reconnaissance Office to produce cameras for surveillance satellites such as the KH-7 Gambit and KH-9 Hexagon.[78] Between 1963 and 1970, Kodak engineers worked on the cancelled Manned Orbiting Laboratory program, designing optical sensors for a crewed reconnaissance satellite. The company later performed a study for NASA on the astronomical uses of the equipment developed for MOL.[79] be457b7860