12-17-2008, 09:15 PM
Do ya'll know that the original Kodak was a wooden camera?
It came pre-loaded with a roll of film that was good for 100 round pix. When you shot the last one you shipped the whole shebang back to Kodak. They developed the film, reloaded the camera, and shipped it back to you.
Camera sold for 25 bucks (which was a lot of money in the late 1800s), and processing/reloading was $10.
Kodak marketed it with the slogan "You push the button and we do the rest" (right up McFly's ally, eh, whot).
A hundred years later Kodak had advanced the state of the art all the way to the Instamatic---where you pushed the button and they did the rest.
Ain't technology grand!
Not to show my age, but my first camera was a Baby Brownie, a smaller version of the one shown above. Had a plastic body, instead of the leatherette-coated one of the real Brownie, and used 127 film. The last camera I bought was a $900 Nikon, which, when all is said and done, doesn't take pictures particularly better than the Baby Brownie.
Brook
http://www.the-outdoor-sports-advisor.com
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It came pre-loaded with a roll of film that was good for 100 round pix. When you shot the last one you shipped the whole shebang back to Kodak. They developed the film, reloaded the camera, and shipped it back to you.
Camera sold for 25 bucks (which was a lot of money in the late 1800s), and processing/reloading was $10.
Kodak marketed it with the slogan "You push the button and we do the rest" (right up McFly's ally, eh, whot).
A hundred years later Kodak had advanced the state of the art all the way to the Instamatic---where you pushed the button and they did the rest.
Ain't technology grand!
Not to show my age, but my first camera was a Baby Brownie, a smaller version of the one shown above. Had a plastic body, instead of the leatherette-coated one of the real Brownie, and used 127 film. The last camera I bought was a $900 Nikon, which, when all is said and done, doesn't take pictures particularly better than the Baby Brownie.
Brook
http://www.the-outdoor-sports-advisor.com
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