Lumiere brothers, French inventors and pioneer manufacturers of photographic equipment who devised an early motion-picture camera and projector called the Cinematographe (‘cinema’ is derived from this name). They introduced projectable film and made the first movie, first newsreel, and first documentary.

2025年1月14日 · Their cinématographe, which functioned as a camera and printer as well as a projector, ran at the economical speed of 16 frames per second. It was given its first commercial demonstration on December 28, 1895.

2025年1月14日 · Marey invented the chronophotographic gun, a camera shaped like a rifle that recorded 12 successive photographs per second, in order to study the movement of birds in flight. These images were imprinted on a rotating glass plate (later, paper roll film), and Marey subsequently attempted to project them.

The first Kodak camera, invented by George Eastman, was placed on the market in 1888. It was a simple handheld box camera containing a 100-exposure roll of film that used paper negatives instead of glass plates to take circular pictures, each roughly 2.5 inches (6 cm) in diameter.

In 1826/27, using a camera obscura fitted with a pewter plate, Niépce produced the first successful photograph from nature, a view of the courtyard of his country estate, Gras, from an upper window of the house.

2025年1月15日 · The Cinematographe was one of the first motion-picture apparatuses, used as both camera and projector. It was invented by Louis and Auguste Lumiere, manufacturers of photographic materials in Lyon, France. The Cinematographe was hand-cranked and lightweight.

These men had created the first modern cameras. In the late 1800s the U.S. inventor George Eastman made a camera that brought photography to the general public. Before this time cameras were heavy, complicated, and expensive.

The earliest known photography studio anywhere opened in New York City in March 1840, when Alexander Wolcott opened a “Daguerrean Parlor” for tiny portraits, using a camera with a mirror substituted for the lens. During this same period, József Petzval and Friedrich

In technology of photography: Roll film. The term roll film is usually reserved for film wound up on a spool with an interleaving light-tight backing paper to protect the wound-up film. The spool is loaded into the camera in daylight, the backing paper leader threaded to a second spool,… Read More; development by Eastman

George Eastman (born July 12, 1854, Waterville, New York, U.S.—died March 14, 1932, Rochester, New York) was an American entrepreneur and inventor whose introduction of the first Kodak camera helped to promote amateur photography on a large scale.