A Little Known Document

 

Everything has to agree before anything can happen.  All of the light and each shadow needs to approve.  Every tree, branch and leaf also, not to mention the surrounding space, like the ground and sky above.  If even one thing doesn’t agree, then none of it can be in the picture.

That is what must happen before your camera can accept the landscape in front of it.  Either it all squeezes in through the lens together or no one gets in.  That is the secret Mr. Kodak figured out so many years ago.

Held in secret, his negotiations with Nature allowed the cameras of the day to function.  Prior to getting a signed agreement, things appeared out-of-focus, distorted or simply upside down.   This signed agreement has been locked away in the basement of the Smithsonian since May 23, 1892.

 

 

 ZC

Side note:

Due the the Salem witchcraft issue of the time, these negotiations had to remain private.  It wouldn't have taken much for cameras to be deemed evil.