Instant & Infant
The EK4 was the first instant camera made by Kodak USA , produced from 1976-1978 . The Tomland's Instant camera appeared in 1978 , produced by Tomland Industries , Hong Kong . Apparently they did not take a Polaroid Land camera for inspiration as this toy camera shows more resemblance to the EK 4 camera by Kodak , like the rectangular form , the presence of the release knob on the left upper corner (seen from the front) , a picture protrusion knob on the lower left and a picture appearing from the lower side of the camera . Kodak stopped producing instant cameras in 1986 having lost a patent infringement suit from Polaroid. Maybe a complaint from Kodak against Tomland would have been successful....
(Note : the lens ot the Tomland camera is not original)
Instant & Infant
The EK4 was the first instant camera made by Kodak USA , produced from 1976-1978 . The Tomland's Instant camera appeared in 1978 , produced by Tomland Industries , Hong Kong . Apparently they did not take a Polaroid Land camera for inspiration as this toy camera shows more resemblance to the EK 4 camera by Kodak , like the rectangular form , the presence of the release knob on the left upper corner (seen from the front) , a picture protrusion knob on the lower left and a picture appearing from the lower side of the camera . Kodak stopped producing instant cameras in 1986 having lost a patent infringement suit from Polaroid. Maybe a complaint from Kodak against Tomland would have been successful....
(Note : the lens ot the Tomland camera is not original)