![]() The Instamatic 300 and 400 cameras feature f/8 Lumenized, color corrected lenses and electric eye automatic exposure controls. ![]() MORE: Vintage 110 cameras: The pocket cameras with small film cartridges that made photography incredibly easy It is also the first budget-priced snapshot camera with which Kodachrome slides can be made. The budget-priced Instamatic 100 camera has fixed focus, Lumenized f-11 pre-set lens, from four feet to infinity. The three lower-priced models require no settings whatsoever. Pop on a flashcube and take four flash pictures without changing bulbs. What do you give them for their very first camera? A Kodak Instamatic 104 camera! Because it loads instantly and is so very easy to use - no settings! It takes terrific pictures - color or black-and-white. The kind of film being used in the cameras is visible at all times, as is the total number of exposures in the cartridge and the number of the exposure ready to be taken. Common features include exceptional compactness (three of the cameras are four inches long, the other five under five inches in length), rapid film advance with automatic film stop and double exposure prevention, and built-in, pop-up flash holder with automatic shutter adjustment for flash pictures. The four cameras range in price from about $16 to $110. Verichrome pan and Kodacolor films will be sold in 12-exposure Kodapak film cartridges - Kodachrome-X and Ektachrome- X films in 20 exposure cartridges.ĪLSO SEE: Vintage instant cameras from Polaroid & Kodak: OneStep, Pronto, Colorburst & more The Kodapak film cartridges will be available loaded with Kodak Verichrome pan film and three 64-speed color films - Kodachrome-X, and new Ektachrome-X and Kodacolor-X - giving the user a choice of color prints, color slides or black and white prints. The cartridges are simply dropped into the camera in any light - even bright sunlight. With this new system, the snapshooter doesn’t thread film or handle film spools. George Eastman’s aim was to make a camera “as easy to use as the pencil.” The introduction of the Instamatic system is another step forward in the simplification of photography. So foolproof is the new Kodapak film cartridge - it can only be inserted one way - that snapshooters can literally load their cameras in seconds “with one hand and their eyes shut.” ![]() Key to the new picture-taking system is a compact cartridge of film. ![]() Flash back a few decades here! With Instamatic cameras, film packs do all the loading nowĪrticle from the San Francisco Examiner (California) March 10, 1963Ī new instant load system of photography which makes camera loading as easy as popping a bulb into a flash holder is being introduced by Eastman Kodak. When vintage Instamatic cameras like these were introduced in the 60s, they came along with the invention of Kodak’s quick-load film cartridge.īoth were so affordable and easy to use that they were instantly successful. ![]()
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