It’s interesting to see the development of Kodak cameras through their adverts…
ANYBODY Who can wind a watch can use the KODAK CAMERA. It is a Magazine Camera, and will make 100 pictures without reloading. The operation of taking the picture is simply to point the Camera and press a button. The picture is taken instantaneously on a strip of sensitive film, which is moved into position by turning a key…
A DIVISION OF LABOUR. After the 100 pictures have been taken, the strip of film (which is wound on a spool) may be removed and sent by mail to the factory to have the picures finished, thus relieving the purchaser of all the trouble of finishing the pictures. Any amateur can finish his own pictures, and any number of duplicates can be made of each picture. A spool of film to reload the camera for 100 pictures costs only Two Dollars…
NO TRIPOD IS REQUIRED. No focussing, no adjustment whatsoever. Rapid rectilinear lens. The KODAK will photograph anything, still or moving, in-doors or out…
A PICTURESQUE DIARY Of your trip to Europe, to the mountains or the sea-shore may be obtained without trouble with a KODAK CAMERA, that will be worth, in after years, a hundred times its cost.
A BEAUTIFUL INSTRUMENT. The KODAK is covered with dark Turkey morocco, nickel and lacquered brass trimmings, enclosed in a neat sole leather carrying case, with shoulder strap, and is about the size of a large field glass…
