[f. prec. sb.] trans. and intr. To photograph with a kodak.
1891. Anthony’s Photogr. Bull., IV. 59. A next door neighbor, who is just beginning to ‘kodak.’
1892. Illustr. Sport. & Dram. News, 23 July, 695/2. Chloe … insisted upon kodaking us all in every conceivable position.
b. fig. To ‘catch’ or describe quickly or vividly.
1892. Daily News, 2 Dec., 6/1. His [Douglas Sladen’s] only aim having been to ‘kodak’ (the verb is a new one) with camera and pen a few phases of life in Japan. Ibid. (1897), 2 March, 8/2. The President of the Transvaal, as recently kodaked by Labouchere out of Rhodes.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 22 Jan., 1/2. His writing had, naturally enough, the defects of its qualities—there are obvious drawbacks in the process of kodaking.
Hence Kodaker, Kodakist, one who photographs with a kodak; Kodakry.
1890. Kodak Man., 51. If … the Kodaker wishes to develop and print his own negatives, he can easily learn to do so.
1898. Westm. Gaz., 25 March, 9/2. The Prince had to pass through a triple file of kodakers, each anxious to get a good shot.
1895. Workman, Algerian Mem., 13. The opportunity here offered the kodakist is a rare one.
1893. F. York Powell, in Classical Rev., May, 229/1. In these days of Kodakry, a little photograph can usually be secured of any larger object on the spot.
