15 Rare Photos Taken With The First Ever Kodak Photo Camera
Travel back some 126 years and it’s there you’ll find world’s first point and shoot camera. It was created by by George Eastman the inventor who founded the Eastman Kodak Company. The world’s first handheld camera initially cost $25 which in today’s climate is around $600 USD today – expensive, but not unreasonable.
Woman reading
Along with a price range aimed at the general population (and not just professional photographers) and the tidy slogan ‘You Press the Button, we Do The Rest’ Eastman’s camera empowered everyday individuals to photograph their lives, friends, family and memories.
Boy paddling in the sea
Here’s 15 amateur photographs first taken using the Kodak No 1. (in truth it was the second camera Kodak had released, as the first was given the generic name of the business itself) that have been preserved by the National Media Museum. They aren’t so different to the images we take using Instagram today, photographs of families, people at the beach and spending time with friends.
Girl looking in a rock pool
Two men on the deck of a ship
Woman in a rowing boat
Children paddling in the sea
Woman, boy and a pram
Woman at a market stall
Baby elephant at the zoo
Metropolitan railway steam locomotive
Children paddling in the sea
Kingsbury and Neasden station
Children walking with a wheelbarrow
Two young girls
Beach photographer
