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Hey everybody,

I wanted to look at which camera really made amateur photography begin. 

The first camera that was put on the market for amateur photography was known as the "Kodak", it was available in 1888, it was created by George Eastman and even though it took quite a long time since the creation of the first photograph in 1829, the reason it took so long was because of photographic film.
Before Eastman came along, a lot of people would of found film to be a hassle because often they would have to carry around more then one type of camera filled with their different types of film eg. print film or reversal film, so Eastman created a smaller camera(the Kodak) with roll film, so it was cheaper for amateur photographers to own and they had more access to technology also it would have been easier to carry their equipment around.

He was born in New York and it is clear that a lot of photographic discoveries were taken in the United States through out time. They were always pushing to discover something new eg:
- Photo of a tornado- South Dakota
- First photo of an animal at night- Michigan
- First photo of the north pole- Taken by American Robert Peary
- First archaeology photos- Taken by American Hiram Bingham

The first Kodak was a simple box that came with a roll of film in it and after you filled the roll you would send it off to get your photographs printed and then you could start again.


https://momentsinseconds.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/slide0028_image031.jpg?w=1200
 

The next big invention after this was the Kodak Brownie, which is what everybody then used, it was invented in 1900 and the thing people loved about it was you could reload it yourself and this was the camera that people used around the home and on vacation to take "snap shots".