I read Sky in the Deep after requesting it as an ARC from the publisher. I’m usually a little reserved when it comes to books about the far past. I can’t really tell you why that is, because one of my favourite books ever since I was sixteen is Clan of the Cave Bearby Jean M. Auel. Maybe because I thought it so amazing that everything else pales in comparison. But there is also the problem of…
One of my favorite things so far in Dracula Daily is finding out Kodak cameras existed in Dracula times. I mean of course they did (the oldest surviving photo is from 1826) but it’s still a brand name today. The first Kodak was from 1888.
Kodak box cameras like this weren’t a tech invention really. Their popularity was from simplifying down to point and shoot, and more importantly taking development and reloading away from the photographer. For $2 ($65 today) you’d send in the whole camera and they’d send you a reloaded one with 100 shots in it.
By the time Dracula came out you could get what we now call a “prosumer” Kodak camera. It had replaceable parts and accessories but you could still just point and shoot. What did photos from this look like? Appropriately spooky!
Đền Đô, Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh Province. Built in the hometown of Lý Công Uẩn, the first emperor of the Lý dynasty, the temple is dedicated to worshipping the emperors of Lý dynasty (1009 - 1225). Credit to datsnapper (Instagram).
