KODAK History

The Kodak name is recognized around the world
for its long heritage of delivering imaging innovations.

Kodak Founder
George Eastman

"You press the button, we do the rest."

With the slogan "you press the button, we do the rest," George Eastman put the first simple camera into the hands of a world of consumers in 1888.
In so doing, he made a cumbersome and complicated process easy to use and accessible to nearly everyone.

Just as Eastman had a goal
to make photography
"as convenient as the pencil."
Kodak continues to expand
the ways images touch
people's daily lives.

Kodak's history began in 1882 when George Eastman created the early form of modern film.
He successfully mass-produced the world’s first photosensitive film.

The history of KODAK

1826
The Birth of the First Photograph, Heliography

KODAK Film Development Lab
(DP & E: Development, Print and Enlarge)
KODAK's film and printing services made photography popular, but it took five days to develop the film.