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The original Kodak moment: Snapshots taken from the camera that changed photography in 1888
The Daily Mail ^ | 10-1-13 | Jill Reilly

Posted on 10/01/2013 8:06:09 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Kodak may have hit hard times in recent years, but 120 years ago it was the pioneer of home photography.

In 1888 it created the Kodak No.1, which gave consumers a chance to capture relaxed scenes which had previously only been taken by professional photographers.

These snapshots taken by amateurs give a charming insight into everyday life in the 19th century.

It was simple to use - users would simply point in the direction of their subject, although it was a guessing game as there was not a viewfinder yet, reports Gizmodo.

They would then wind the film, open the shutter, and press a button to actually capture the picture.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; History
KEYWORDS: business; history; kodak; media; photography
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To: a fool in paradise
Faulting Kodak for not getting into the digital CAMERA business is like faulting Ford for not making boats and airplanes.

They made some serious $100,000 copiers back in the '80s. Apple is an all-in-one solution, Kodak might have been as well.
21 posted on 10/01/2013 8:34:15 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: oh8eleven

it was a case of arrogance.

Kodak felt THEY owned all there was to know about imaging technology and did not respect that others outside of Kodak might have a good idea. (And up until the early 60’s, they were right)


22 posted on 10/01/2013 8:34:37 AM PDT by llevrok (Democrats are LAW-LESS because the GOP is Ball-Less)
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To: oh8eleven

What goes around comes around.

IIRC xerox turned down the PARC system developed by their Palo Alto division, local area network, WYSIWYG interface, point and click mouse. Guy named Jobs toured PARC and developed the MacIntosh.

Reportedly, the board told Palo Alto, we’re a copy machine company not a computer company.


23 posted on 10/01/2013 8:38:51 AM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: JimSEA
Just how much of their time did upper class women spend dressing. Were they, and the men, trying to make themselves uncomfortable. Hot weather must have been difficult.

A lot of the clothes were made out of wool. Couldn't imagine having to wear wool clothes in Summer, before air conditioning was invented and before fans as well. Shorts were only acceptable for young boys. I'm glad I live in the age that I do, I have never longed for living in the past.

24 posted on 10/01/2013 8:45:00 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Bkmk


25 posted on 10/01/2013 8:45:26 AM PDT by Ignatz (Winner of a prestigious 1960 Y-chromosome award!)
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To: rochester_veteran

That woman in the rowboat looks like she has her waist corseted down to about 18 inches. Can’t understand how she could draw a breath, let alone engage in such strenuous activity.


26 posted on 10/01/2013 8:47:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

“Apparently, people were a lot thinner back then”

Before fast food.


27 posted on 10/01/2013 8:50:37 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Dr. Sivana
They made some serious $100,000 copiers back in the '80s. Apple is an all-in-one solution, Kodak might have been as well.

Laser printers too. I worked in computer operations back in the 80's and initially we had a Xerox 9700 (it was a beast!) and then upgraded to the Kodak commercial laser printer. It would print duplex on both sides of the paper at the same time. We also had a Kodak Comstar mircrofiche/microfilm system.

28 posted on 10/01/2013 8:50:42 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
That woman in the rowboat looks like she has her waist corseted down to about 18 inches. Can’t understand how she could draw a breath, let alone engage in such strenuous activity.

Yes, I noticed that. The fainting issues women had back then were attributed to corsets being too tight.

29 posted on 10/01/2013 8:52:38 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: rochester_veteran

The Xerox 9700! That WAS a beast! I remember hours typesetting XSET on that thing. Vanilla HTML code was reminiscent of XSET. A beautiful beast.


30 posted on 10/01/2013 8:55:56 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Actually, Ford did make planes. Ever hear of the Ford Trimotor? And they did build ships for the Navy in WWI.

Your analogy would be better if you said Ford while ‘inventing’ the automobile didn’t go on to build cars. Which is basically what Kodak did, or failed to do, with digital photography.


31 posted on 10/01/2013 8:57:58 AM PDT by AFreeBird
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To: morphing libertarian

Lots of stuff we take for granted today was created at PARC. Jobs more or less “appropriated” the GUI from the Alto systems that had become standard issue at PARC by the time he first went there. When he couldn’t get everything he wanted he started poaching the engineers who designed the tech in the Alto to work on the Lisa and, later, the Macintosh. He might have seen the commercial potential, but he didn’t invent it like so many would have us believe.


32 posted on 10/01/2013 9:00:24 AM PDT by Orangedog (An optimist is someone who tells you to 'cheer up' when things are going his way)
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To: Dr. Sivana
The Xerox 9700! That WAS a beast! I remember hours typesetting XSET on that thing. Vanilla HTML code was reminiscent of XSET. A beautiful beast.

It would print 120 pages per minute! It was about 9 feet long and the one I worked with had the 9 track tape drive and the terminal and provided printing for our MVS and CMS mainframes. We also had IBM impact printers, trimmers, bursters and collators.

33 posted on 10/01/2013 9:03:25 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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To: rochester_veteran

Did you ever work with its little brother, the 2700? Not a beast, but awfully peppy for 1983.


34 posted on 10/01/2013 9:05:16 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There's no salvation in politics.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Thanks for sharing this. It was interesting.


35 posted on 10/01/2013 9:20:15 AM PDT by married21
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BFL


36 posted on 10/01/2013 9:29:15 AM PDT by zeugma (Is it evil of me to teach my bird to say "here kitty, kitty"?)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Fast food,processed flour, and sugar subsidies.

Basically people were on the Atkins diet, and just didn’t know it uet.


37 posted on 10/01/2013 9:30:03 AM PDT by hobbes1 (Hobbes1TheOmniscient® "St.Sarah, the1Tru Conservative that REFUSES to unite us and Save America"you)
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To: a fool in paradise

Dang it!

Linda Eastman ruined the Beatles!

:]


38 posted on 10/01/2013 9:36:35 AM PDT by Adder (No, Mr. Franklin, we could NOT keep it.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
If they could see us today they’d think we look like a bunch of slobs.

Yeah but cleaner, more comfy, and with better teeth and nicer legs!

39 posted on 10/01/2013 9:36:52 AM PDT by HomeAtLast (The original Tea Party entailed a willingness to do without some tea.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Yes I did work with the 2700. I took a job a another ops site in the 90’s and we had two 2700’s.


40 posted on 10/01/2013 9:45:07 AM PDT by rochester_veteran (All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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