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Small Cameras: small cameras were now so reduced in bulk they could be held in the hand. The photographer was freed from tb need to carry a tripod wherever he went. A bewilderinj array of hand small cameras appeared on the market. Some hel( several plates in a magazine, so that photographers coulc take a dozen or more exposures in rapid succession. Be cause these small cameras allowed exposures to be made sur repdtiously, they were often called "detective small cameras.' They were given fanciful names. Here are a few of thi more popular mass-produced hand small cameras of the lati nineteenth century:
4. To avoid complications in proving "prior possession" of valuable things taken with you, it is good practice to register them with the U.S. customs before departure from America. Examples are small cameras and watches of foreign manufacture, small cameras being far more important, since they are more "suspicionable."
These pictures came to be called "snapshots," a word used by hunters to describe shooting a firearm from the hip, without taking careful aim. The first Kodak, like many other detective small cameras, had no finder: the Camera was simply pointed at the subject. The "brilliant finders" later built into the bodies of box small cameras gave images only the size of a postage stamp. Careful composition was hardly possible with them, nor was it of concern, for most snapshooters had little artistic ambition.
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