Cameras & Phones
Seiko Medina Class of ‘19
One of the cameras in the Musbach collection is the Instamatic; the name surely worked, as did the camera. Within two years of its March 1963 launch, more than 7.5 million Instamatics had been sold worldwide starting at $16 — a little more than $120 in today's dollars.
Instamatic X-15 Camera
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.
The fist Instamatics went on sale for $16 in early 1963, and were soon followed by the 300 (which had a light meter), the 400 (which had a light meter and a spring driven film advance), and the 700 (which had a light meter, focusing, and selectable shutter speeds). They were the first cameras to use Kodak's new 126 format. The easy-load film cartridge made the cameras very inexpensive to produce, as it provided the film backing plate and exposure counter itself and thus saved considerable design complexity and manufacturing cost for the cameras.
Vivitar Auto Wide 28MM Camera
The company was established in Santa Monica, California in 1938 as a distributor of photographic products by Max Ponder the Vivitar name and eventually began designing.
Seiko Medina Class of ‘19
One of the cameras in the Musbach collection is the Instamatic; the name surely worked, as did the camera. Within two years of its March 1963 launch, more than 7.5 million Instamatics had been sold worldwide starting at $16 — a little more than $120 in today's dollars.
Instamatic X-15 Camera
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.
The fist Instamatics went on sale for $16 in early 1963, and were soon followed by the 300 (which had a light meter), the 400 (which had a light meter and a spring driven film advance), and the 700 (which had a light meter, focusing, and selectable shutter speeds). They were the first cameras to use Kodak's new 126 format. The easy-load film cartridge made the cameras very inexpensive to produce, as it provided the film backing plate and exposure counter itself and thus saved considerable design complexity and manufacturing cost for the cameras.
Vivitar Auto Wide 28MM Camera
The company was established in Santa Monica, California in 1938 as a distributor of photographic products by Max Ponder the Vivitar name and eventually began designing.
