Survey #5
I am happy with my final result. I believe I have a strong concept for my artifact, as I displayed my artifact as if it was for sale in a store. My information about the camera on the first page is quite informative yet still is easy and fun to read. I think I resembled the build of the camera quite well, however, I made the lens of the camera too large. Another thing I could have done better was to integrate the writing with the artifact into one photo, instead of having two separate photos which makes it feel a little disconnected. Overall I think I did quite well and I’d give myself a 9/10.
Research:
The Kodak Company was born in 1888 with the debut of the first Kodak camera. It came pre-loaded with enough film for 100 exposures and could easily be carried and handheld during its operation. “You press the button, we do the rest,” Eastman promised in the advertising slogan for his revolutionary invention.
https://www.thoughtco.com/george-eastman-history-of-kodak-1991619
After the film was exposed—meaning all 100 shots were taken—the whole camera was returned to the Kodak company in Rochester, New York, where the film was developed, prints were made, and a new roll of photographic film was inserted into the camera. The camera and prints were then returned to the customer, for the whole cycle to be repeated again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak
George Eastman though long and hard about the perfect name for his company. “A trademark should be short, vigorous, incapable of being misspelled,” George Eastman said, explaining the process by which he’d come to name his company. “The letter ‘K’ had been a favorite of mine. It seems a strong, incisive sort of letter. It became a question of trying out a great number of combinations of letters that made words starting and ending with “K.”
https://www.eastman.org/camera-obscura-revolutionary-kodak
References
Bellis, Mary. “The History of Kodak: How Rolled Film Made Everyone a Photographer.” ThoughtCo, ThoughtCo, 5 Oct. 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/george-eastman-history-of-kodak-1991619.
“From the Camera Obscura to the Revolutionary Kodak.” George Eastman Museum, https://www.eastman.org/camera-obscura-revolutionary-kodak.