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Photography has always held a special place in my heart. The ability to capture a second in time and to have it for all eternity is wonderful.

George Eastman's early camera had a unique "Ko-Dak" sound to the shutter. George always thought that the letter "k" was strong, so was quick to spot the Ko-Dak sound.

When it came time to name his new camera, George did not call it an Eastman camera or a George camera. The world was introduced to the "Kodak" camera, and embraced it; as George knew they would.

His first camera was wooden and loaded with enough film for 100 pictures. When you wanted the film developed you sent him the camera, he would unload it and reload it for you, and send it back to you. As time went on, George could trust us with the light sensitive film.

I smile every time I see a disposable camera; they remind me so much of the first cameras ever to be sold.

In today's fast paced market, we only get the pictures back and Kodak gets to keep the camera. It's kind of sad that cameras are so disposable. Don't get me wrong they have their purposes. What would weddings be without disposable cameras?

The really early cameras are not easy to find anymore, as most of them are all in the hands of collectors or museums.

What you can find in the antique stores are the Brownie Leatherette Box Cameras. The next time you see one, look at it closely. The lens is mounted in wood, the view finder lets you take a picture horizontally or by laying the camera over you can take a vertical picture. The red window hole lets you read the number on the back of the film.

I am intrigued by is the two small tabs on the top (handle portion) of the camera.

The small one is for time laps photography. Take your fingernail and pull up on it. Click the shutter and it will remain open exposing the wooden mounted lens.

While it is in this position, slide your fingernail under the larger tab. A brass plate with a hole in it slides over the lens. This is an aperture setting. Pull up some more and you will find a different size hole, another aperture opening. Slide the tabs back down and all will return to normal.

The simple box camera was not so simple after all. A time exposure and three aperture openings. For all the sophistication of antique cameras it is nothing compared to modern digital cameras .

One more thing before you lay that camera back down, for George and I, click the shutter and let us all hear it say "Kodak".

Do you agree that just maybe our society has become a little too disposable. I sometimes miss the old days when cameras were still a mystery. As well as hearing my father and grandfather discussing how
photographs were taken.

Way back when point and shoot were terms used for products other than cameras.

Copyright 2008 by Pamela Contreras

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Leatherette Box Camera

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He worked at it for forty years, and was able to capture images.However, they soon faded back into the past from whence they came.

When he heard of an Italian pottery maker that was putting images on his pottery that were not paintings but real images. Off to Italy he went to meet Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,

Joseph Nic'ephore Nie'pce was a fairly unknown pottery maker. However this pottery maker was coating his vases in a silver nitrate solution and placing them across a pleasant field of flowers.

A lens was used to get the field to
conform to the shape of his vases. The best part was that the image did not fade away.

Now you tell me! "Who's the Daddy of Photography?" Louis Daguerre, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce,

It's my personal opinion that both contributors invented photography One without the other was almost useless.

So the daguerreotype was not the first process of photography to be invented. However It was the most successful and the first be commercially
viable. Other successful processes required hours of exposure, the time it took was not feasible for any commercial applications.

The pay back for Louis Daguerre's forty some odd years of hard work trying countless formulas was a disheartening end. On August 14,1839 Miles Berry
acting on the behalf of Louis Daguerre obtained a patent for the daguerreotype process.

Within a few days of the patent on August 19, 1839 the government of France announced the invention saying "A Gift To The Free World" What a wonderful gift.

Though it was never Daguerre's intent to give photography as a gift to everyone. Thanks to his efforts you can give a gift of photography and
cameras to everyone.

Yet without the pottery maker Joseph Nic'ephore Nie'pce. Louis Daguerre may never have been able to invent or perfect the art of photography.

Photographs and videos today are such an essential part of our social culture today how could we survive without them, We even have them in our phones so that we don't miss an opportunity to save a valuable memory.


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Pamlea Contreras

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