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Berkey Keystone 60-Second Everflash Model 800
Oy, what a name...
The Keystone was essentially a half-authorized knockoff of Polaroid's own rigid pack film cameras that was produced from around 1973-1975, as far as I can tell. MSRP was just shy of $80 for the 800, and the 850 (with a built-in rechargable battery; probably no good, now) ran a bit higher.
Despite retaining the nearly-useless "guess focusing" of the Polaroid cameras, it has a few nice features: notably the built-in electronic flash instead of using flashcubes. Supposedly the lens is glass. It also has a built-in development timer (mine doesn't work), and was designed to use both the rectangular and square packfilms in both ISO 75 for color, and 3000 for black/white. The fact it used Polaroid's own film was the only reason the Polaroid Corporation's legal team kind of looked the other way as far as production of these cameras went. Berkey also put out a rigid SX-70 knockoff around the same time, which sold under a few different names.
This was a thrift store find at a whopping $4, so why not. I killed a couple of exposures in it that didn't turn out well (my own errors), but I'll play with it a bit further.
Berkey Keystone 60-Second Everflash Model 800
Oy, what a name...
The Keystone was essentially a half-authorized knockoff of Polaroid's own rigid pack film cameras that was produced from around 1973-1975, as far as I can tell. MSRP was just shy of $80 for the 800, and the 850 (with a built-in rechargable battery; probably no good, now) ran a bit higher.
Despite retaining the nearly-useless "guess focusing" of the Polaroid cameras, it has a few nice features: notably the built-in electronic flash instead of using flashcubes. Supposedly the lens is glass. It also has a built-in development timer (mine doesn't work), and was designed to use both the rectangular and square packfilms in both ISO 75 for color, and 3000 for black/white. The fact it used Polaroid's own film was the only reason the Polaroid Corporation's legal team kind of looked the other way as far as production of these cameras went. Berkey also put out a rigid SX-70 knockoff around the same time, which sold under a few different names.
This was a thrift store find at a whopping $4, so why not. I killed a couple of exposures in it that didn't turn out well (my own errors), but I'll play with it a bit further.