The Origins of Kodak
On September 4th, 1888 George Eastman was awarded US Patent No. 388,850 for a small, handheld, easy-to-use camera, called the Kodak. It was a wooden rectangular prism 9.5 by 8.3 by 16.5 centimeters covered in smooth black leather. Its 57-millimeter lens had good close-focusing capabilities, allowing the photographer to focus on objects as close as 1.2 meters. You put the film in and advanced it, and after exposing all 50 or 100 frames you rewound it.”
From “September 1888: George Eastman Patents His Kodak Camera” by Vaclav Smil for Spectrum; Photo Illustration by Stuart Bradford
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