Selasa, 02 Januari 2018

The First: Point-and-Shoot Camera

Take your own pictures, without the unwieldy “pack-horse load” of equipment of the glass-plate negative age. That was George Eastman’s promise in 1888, when his Kodak Company introduced a 3-by-4-by-6 1/2-inch box camera. The Kodak’s steep $25 price tag made it a plaything for the rich, but Eastman was selling more than the latest technology. …

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