Comments on: Penniless Inventor Gets Million for Photo Machine

By: BIRGUL

BIRGUL — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 22:43:02 +0000

I would like to get in touch with company representetive of automatic picture taking machines I would like to order. Would you be able to give me their contact details please.

Many thanks in advance
Birgul

By: Benzene

Benzene — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:10:48 +0000

2000 lined up per day. They didn’t say whether all 2000 had their pictures taken. Also, some of them might have been in groups. I don’t think I’ve ever gone into a photo booth by myself.

By: kodak

kodak — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:56:23 +0000

Hmmm something seems off here. 2000 people a day at 8 minutes each is 266 hours. so he’d have to have 110 of these machines there to satisfy 2000 a day. Let’s suppose that infact he could pipe-line these, developing one as another was shot. at 60 seconds per person that’s 32 hours, still more than a day!.

now let’s say he did 2000 per day at 50 cents a pop. then that’s 365 thousand dollars if they did 2000 a day 365 days a year. His share of that could not be 1 million since presumably there’s the cost of building and operating them. I assume there were many of these in operation but I’d also assume the investors got the lion’s share too. so this makes no sense to me.

By: jayessell

jayessell — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 16:42:21 +0000

jmyint?
Was it able to take photos while the previous photos were being developed?
We in the 21st century are amazed such a device could operate without a microprocessor!

By: jmyint

jmyint — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:23:38 +0000

I worked on these things back in the 80’s they looked and worked the same then as 60 years earlier.