Box Brownie
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| One of the first produced box brownies |
1900 - The first of the famous BROWNIE Cameras was introduced. It sold for $1 and used film that sold for 15 cents a roll. For the first time, the hobby of photography was within the financial reach of virtually everyone (Kodak)
It had a fixed focal length and only a single shutter speed however because it was available to everybody this camera was the birth of "snapshot" / candid style photography, which is still a genre today.
He marketed the cameras at young people, this is because he saw that the masses would be able purchase the camera at such a low cost and he would sell many rolls of film, as every household would be able to purchase a camera.
" The February 1900 Trade Circular lists a 6 exposure roll of transparent film at $0.15, paper-negative film at $0.10, and $0.40 for processing them! "
Eadweard Muybridge
He was looking at capturing movement in a series of images, this was started by a bet that when a horse runs at one point all four feet are lifted above the ground at once. He set up a row of motion sensored cameras and got a rider to run the horse infront of them, this is then presented as a series.
He continued working in this style of capturing movement using different subjects such as people and birds, one series he created shows a young child climbing off a chair.
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| Horse in Motion |
" setting up a series of fifty cameras parallel to the race track. By connecting their electrically controlled shutters to trip wires lain across the track, he ensured each one automatically took its own picture as the horse sped by. " WildFilmHistory
Sources
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Our_Company/History_of_Kodak/Milestones_-_chronology/1878-1929.htm
http://www.brownie-camera.com/5.shtml
http://www.wildfilmhistory.org/person/180/Eadweard+Muybridge.html
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