It was a simple promise, and a compelling one, at a time when photography was still in it infancy: “You press the button, we do the rest.” With that, Kodak’s famous slogan made picture taking seem ...

While most Americans now carry a tiny camera in their pockets, the oldest roll of the film that started consumer photography now sits quietly inside a New York museum. The George Eastman Museum ...

I may have a few relatively ancient rolls of film in my freezer, but none as old as the two Kodak rolls recently acquired by Rochester, New York’s Eastman Museum. The museum, which houses one of the ...

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A huge fan of antique cameras has struck gold after discovering a 100 year old Kodak in Salisbury’s Antique Market, complete with used film. 20-year-old Oliver Barnes had the film developed, revealing ...

Wedding photographer Laura Babb was given a Kodak Brownie, a now iconic vintage box camera, as a gift. Inside was a roll of undeveloped 127 film, which appeared to have been snapped inside the camera.

As we toured the finishing department, Nancy DiBella, Rochester Film Finishing Operations Manager for Kodak, pointed out the role of each machine and person we passed. She wore a white lab coat and ...

Regular 120 film spool on the right, 616 spool modified to accept 120 film on the left. 616 film is like 116 film, only with smaller-diameter spool ends; both are 9 millimeters narrower than commonly ...