Antique and Modern Kodak Cameras
George Eastman, who lived in Rochester, New York in the 1880s was the inventor of the Kodak camera. He began his company by creating a small box camera which took photographs onto a new material called film. In the year 1888 George Eastman had received the patent for this new form of camera and called it Kodak
The word Kodak was used so that Eastman would not need to worry about trademark infringement. This new camera made a "KoDak" sound when a photograph was taken this is from what the name was created from. These Antique Kodak Cameras went on sale in June of 1888 and they sold for around twenty-five dollars each. All of the cameras had the ability to take one hundred pictures onto this new material, the film. After the owner had taken the one hundred photographs it would be sent back to the Kodak Factory to be developed. The development of these photographs would cost ten dollars, but in return they got fully developed photographs and new film for the camera. The photographs would be returned on a two and half inch circular piece of cardboard with the image upon it. The Kodak slogan at that time was "all you have to do is press the button." An antique Kodak camera from the 1800s would be worth at least two thousand dollars nowadays but if it was in good conditions it could sell for a much higher amount.
Today in these modern times Kodak has newer digital cameras that take the photographs and save them in a new way, to a memory card, this allows many thousands of photos to be taken instead of the one hundred of the antique camera, you can also delete photographs that did not turn out well. You can even create backups of your precious photographs on your home computer so that if you happen to loose the photograph you can easily get another one done.
Some Simillar Posts
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
