How Does Kodak Make a Camera?
The Affordable Camera Cameras have been around since the mid 1800s, but it wasn’t until George Eastman decided that everyone should be able to afford one that Kodak was born. Kodak took cameras out of the exclusive hands of the professionals and made it so the general populace could both afford to buy and use one of these simple devices. Of course, cameras have changed a great deal in the interim, but, for the most part, they are made the same way. Constucting a Film-Based Camera All film-based cameras are made much the same, and include the same five parts. Kodak starts with a glass or plastic lens. It takes the rough glass (or plastic) and molds it in such a way that it will reflect light back through the camera in order to capture an image. From there, they create the diaphragm. This diaphragm (sometimes referred to as the aperture) controls the amount of light that gets through into the film. Too much light would destroy the negative, while too little would produce a dark photograp