The first Kodak camera came loaded and cost twenty five dollars in 1889.
Kodachrome is gone now, and taken the colour palette in which was used in mid-20th century. The digital photography has taken out the bright projection of earliest memories that was shown through a carousel slideshow.
1890s: Kodak employees in a penthouse on the roof of the State Street factory.
18 March 1947: A tiny “MB” camera (no larger than its namesake, a matchbox). Eastman Kodak designed and built 1,000 of these cameras for use by OSS agents and underground forces during World War II.
Eastman changed the photography industry by putting the camera in the hands of the amateurs. Their first camera came preloaded with enough film for 100 pictures however, the user had send the whole camera back to eastman for processing.
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