The Story of Kodak Ektra
COMPARATIVELY few years ago, your interest in a new camera would almost certainly have been limited to simply the size of its pictures, the range of its lens and shutter, and its cost. Because, unless you were one of the then quite few advanced photographers, all you wanted was to be able to get what were considered good pictures of your family, travels, and other personal activities.
        Today, because of the many developments in photography, it is impossible to define your own particular interest in picture making. It may be in advanced pictorial work or straight documentary photography . . . in scientific work in the laboratory or beautiful full-color transparencies . . . in microfilming or in fast action shots . . . or, in getting good pictures of personal subjects.
        We do know, however, that whichever of these applications is your own photographic activity, you are interested in contemporary photography . . . and in the finest equipment available for your own picture making. We believe then that you will be interested in this story of the Kodak Ektra.
        With the recent wide extensions of photography into industry, science, medicine, color, and pictorial art, there has been an increasing demand for a new camera that would match the many definite improvements that have been
 
  made in enlarging equipment, papers, films, processing technics . . a camera that would incorporate, integrally, a number of supplementary features and refinements which have demonstrated their importance in miniature photography . . . and a camera that would capitalize the range of specialized negative emulsions now available, with their higher speed, microscopically fine grain, sensitivity to infrared radiations, and ability to reproduce full color.  
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