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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
12-30-2018, 01:38 PM
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You have cherry picked successful and lasting (at least until digital came along) improvements. But there are plenty of failed innovations littering the history of photography, because not all innovations are improvements. Examples of ones that died out are Autochrome colour photography, the returnable camera (although successful for a time), and Polaroid instant photography (became a niche market).
The returnable Kodak box camera of 1888 for example was the equivalent "auto-everything" camera for the masses at the time, based on the assumption that the masses were too dumb to load and unload a film, at least not without fogging it. But it turned out that the masses were quite capable of handling a roll of film.
Similarly, from the very earliest days it was assumed that cameras would need to produce more-or-less immediate positive useable pictures in order for photography to catch on. Many inventors spent their lives on it. Daguerre and Land did it, but there were overwhelming advantages to going with enlarged negative technology, despite the time lag.
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