Why did Hysmans's "Kodak No.1 Camera" make a great contribution to the popularization of photography?

Hysmans's "Kodak No.1 Camera" simplifies photography to a simple action of "just pressing the shutter", which has made great contributions to the popularization of photography and made it truly enter the society and the public. In that year alone, Eastman sold 65,438+03,000 such cameras. 12 years later, 4 million people in Britain have used this lightweight camera. When talking about this new camera, Wilson Photography Magazine said:

But a little over a year later, the whole world knew that there was a little black box called Kodak camera. In a short time of sensation, this small box made thousands of people fall in love with photography, and its unique name became a household name.