![]() ![]() HR film can be over or underexposed several stops and still produce acceptable prints.ĪLSO SEE: Vintage Instamatic cameras: The boxy, iconic cameras pretty much everyone had in the 60s & 70s Because disc film negatives are so small, Kodak has given the new HR film improved sharpness and minimized the grain to accommodate normal enlargements. The new 15-shot disc film is called Kodacolor HR (for high resolution), and has a speed of 200 compared to the current Kodacolor II’s speed of 100. This means that you can keep your eye at the finder, watching expressions, without being distracted to pause and advance the film manually. You could shoot sequential action outdoors as though you had an expensive motorized 35mm model. Not a roll of film but a film disc - so thin there’s room in the camera for a cluster of electronics. Each time you press the shutter button of a disc camera, a tiny motor rotates the disc and advances the film to the next frame. Kodak designed this new generation of snapshot cameras around a disc of film with 15 small film frames radiating from a hub. They weigh an average of six to seven ounces and look like no other camera you’ve seen. Disc cameras fit many pocket shapes because they are only about 4-3/4 inches long, 3 inches high and 7/8 inch thick. While current 110-size cameras are lightweight, their long, slim shape is more conducive to a purse than a jacket pocket. Production on Kodak’s Disc camera stopped in 1988, although the company continued to manufacture the film for another decade.īy Lou Jacobs Jr, Los Angeles Times (California) July 25, 1982Ĭan you remember your first camera with a drop-in film cartridge in 126 or 110 size? Some of these were “ Instamatics,” a Kodak trade name that the company is supplanting with its innovative disc cameras and film.ĭisc photography is unique: You still drop the film in and snap the camera shut, but many features are new or operate more automatically than before. Making matters worse, in order to get the best quality print from disc film reels, print processors would have to upgrade to some specialty equipment… and many chose not to make that investment, instead using the same machines that printed from other types of film.Īs a result, pictures too often ended up being grainy, having poor color or a lack of definition - all of which led to the Disc’s quick demise. Photo by Michel Bussieres | Īs simple and convenient as using the camera was, there were quality issues that came along with using a negative that was just 8mm x 10.5mm in size. The new cameras were lightweight, foolproof (with auto-exposure and built-in flash), affordable, and used a brand new kind of film cartridge.Īs you can see in the images below, this was film mounted on a disc - which looked a lot like one of the old View-Master reels - rather than the traditional type of film that was spooled in a cartridge and returned as negatives in strips. The Kodak Disc camera was introduced with great fanfare in 1982. ![]()
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