Eastman Kodak camera company
This is a Kodak Instamatic 500, a fully manual, but high end Instamatic camera built in Stuttgart, Germany by Kodak AG between the years 1963 to 1965. The Instamatic 500 was one of Kodak’s few Instamatic cameras built in Germany, by the same German division responsible for their premium Retina…
There have been many firsts in the history of photography. First photographic process, first use of film, first box camera, first SLR, first digital camera, etc. Of all those firsts, in 1888, a new camera made it’s debut that was the first of it’s kind, first to use a new…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. Last year, I republished individual versions of each…
Kodachrome could very well be the most commercially successful film stock of all time. Not only was it in production for more than half a century, it inspired a 1972 song by Paul Simon, a 2017 movie starting Ed Harris, and also had a Utah State park named after it.…
The Kodak Ektra is one of the most interesting cameras of any I’ve ever written about on this site. In July 2019, I was able to get my hands on a working example and I wrote an in depth review of it sharing some of the only images shot with…
2020 has been a complete and utter disaster of a year. For myself and probably everyone I know, this has been the worst year ever. A year that should have never happened, and assuming we all survive it, a year in which for the rest of our lives, we will…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
On December 8, 1941 the Eastman Kodak Company released a brand new color negative film called Kodacolor. If that date sounds familiar, it’s because the day before was the day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, launching the United States into World War II with both Japan and Germany. Why did…
This review is part of the Cameras of the Dead series which I have been publishing every year on Halloween and “Halfway to” Halloween, featuring three cameras that I’ve wanted to review that either didn’t work, or was otherwise unable to shoot. I am republishing each of those individual reviews…
In this Keppler’s Vault series, I’ve shared articles about many of Kodak’s classic black and white films such as Tri-X, Plus-X, and even Royal-X, but the time has come for what is not just my all time favorite Kodak film, but probably my all time favorite film of any kind…
This is a Kodak Professional DCS Pro SLR/n, a digital SLR camera produced in cooperation with Nikon and Kodak starting in 2004. This camera was part of Kodak’s Professional lineup of DSLRs and is notable as being the very first digital camera with a “full frame” 24mm x 36mm sensor. …
My current digital camera is a Fujifilm X-T20 and when I am out shooting, I can change the simulated ISO setting as high as 12,800 in standard mode and 51,200 in “extended” mode meaning that no matter how slow of a lens I mount to it, I can shoot the…
