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Disposable cameras

  • From: P3D Andrew Eskind <andy@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Disposable cameras
  • Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 21:10:49 -0500
p> Subject: Disposable cameras
> Message-ID: <199704011902_MC2-13A2-7C4E@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > Besides, aren't disposables the "in" thing nowdays?  Doesn't making
> > something disposable make it "modern"!
> >
> Actually, it just brings the century full cycle. When Kodak first began
> selling cheap home cameras, they were "disposable", I.e. they were returned
> along with the film for processing. Now we're back to doing it again. 

Kodak's cameras of the late 1880s and 1890s were neither cheap, nor
disposable.  Yes, they were returned to Rochester via US Mail for
processing ("You Press the Button, We Do the Rest"), but the same
camera was then re-loaded (100 exposures) and returned via mail
presumably along with the stack of 100 successful prints.  The $25
cost in 1888 dollars placed it in about the same upscale market the SX70
enjoyed when it came out.

ahe


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