Kodak Instamatic Camera 100. March 2020
Well it's the start of the season for such things as this which I like to attend. We had a nice couple of hours at National Trust's Calke Abbey. Vintage and Handmade Fair. Held in the Riding school, browsing through the arts, crafts and vintage stalls. Bought a few small items. Polished off with a hot chocolate drink :)
Have you still got any of these or remember having them?
The Instamatic is a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
During its heyday, the range was so ubiquitous that the Instamatic name is still frequently used (erroneously) to refer to any inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. (It is also frequently used incorrectly to describe Kodak's line of instant-picture cameras, the Kodamatic series.)
The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some Super 8-based home-cine cameras.
Today you can pick one up for under a fiver (£5)
Kodak Instamatic Camera 100. March 2020
Well it's the start of the season for such things as this which I like to attend. We had a nice couple of hours at National Trust's Calke Abbey. Vintage and Handmade Fair. Held in the Riding school, browsing through the arts, crafts and vintage stalls. Bought a few small items. Polished off with a hot chocolate drink :)
Have you still got any of these or remember having them?
The Instamatic is a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.
During its heyday, the range was so ubiquitous that the Instamatic name is still frequently used (erroneously) to refer to any inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. (It is also frequently used incorrectly to describe Kodak's line of instant-picture cameras, the Kodamatic series.)
The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some Super 8-based home-cine cameras.
Today you can pick one up for under a fiver (£5)