Word: kodaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more today to make a hamburger, less to make an omelet Inflation 1900 adjusted 1999 Sugar (1 lb.) $.04 $.78 $1.49 Eggs (1 dozen) $.14 $2.75 $1.79 Butter (1 lb.) $.24 $4.70 $4.49 Beef (1 lb.) $.07 $1.37 $2.99 Coffee (1 lb.) on $.07 $1.37 $1.35 the commodity exchange Kodak camera* $5 $98 $120 Lionel $6 $117 $150 electric train Train ticket** $13 $254 $43 First-class stamp...
...Pocket Model D in 1900, APS (Advanced Photo System) in 1999 **From St. Paul Minn., to Minot, S.D., on the Great Northern Railway Sources: The People's Chronology, Uncommon Grounds, Lionel LLC, Eastman Kodak Co., Amtrak, The Great Northern Railway--A History, The Traveller's Official Railway Guide, U.S. Postal Service
Perhaps the biggest new feature in 5.0 is "You've Got Pictures," a collaboration with Kodak. AOL users can now drop off their 35-mm or APS film at any of the 38,000 participating Kodak service centers in the U.S. After specifying that you want the service, you pick up your paper prints the way you normally would, only now they'll also be digitized and delivered directly to your AOL account. You can then create a "Buddy Gallery," which permits people on your Buddy Lists to view the snapshots. You or your buddies can download those snapshots...
Instead of the usual parade of great photographers, this is more the story of pictures themselves, how they conquered the world and filled every last inch of psychic space. It travels from the Kodak Brownie, the memory toy that let everyone commemorate the everyday, to the computer manipulations that turn pictures into smooth lies. This is history that gives more time to mass-market phenomena and socially concerned work than anything formalist, unengaged or inward. So LIFE magazine, tabloids and the child-labor photos of Lewis Hine are all nicely served. Minor White, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus and William Eggleston...
ITEM: Deke Slayton's Omega Speedmaster wristwatch (4) ESTIMATE: $8,000 to $12,000 WENT FOR: $28,750 COMPARE WITH: NASA's Kodak-made 460 camera...