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🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂Took me a sec to see what it is.

It's like living in the future! 🤣🤣🤣

Shittiest camera ever made

That was the worst. You coudn't even store the negatives in a compact folder.

THE worst.

Ah the good Old Days

I got a bunch in an old desk

Second worst film format ever: 110. Only surpassed by The Kodak Disk camera. As a camera nerd in the 80/90s I worked at Kit's Cameras and never saw a decent pic from either.

A camera. In your pocket. With film in a tiny cartridge. Laugh if you want, it was pretty amazing at the time

Is this the new iphone?

Been there, done that.

I can smell this photo.

If by "spooky" Gene, you're going to "make me feel old"; mission accomplished. 😂

I remember my parents owning one of these, then a 'Disc Camera' and then a digital camera.

A professional photographer friend was in Paris, taking a nighttime multisecond exposure of the Eiffel Tower from 250 yards away, told me that while doing it a tourist beside him took out an instamatic camera, plonked a flashcube on top & took a picture of the tower. I expect they were disappointed

😂 😂

As you wound the film on by hand , the cube would turn.

My first camera had one of these. The reflector fanned out and you had to pop the fried bulb out to replace it with a new one for each photo.

My mom had this one!

They took pretty crummy pictures.

I see spots

When Minolta sold out to Konica, and the Sony, I migrated to the Sony alpha line of dslr and was able to continue to use my lenses. I miss film photography some days, but I don't miss the expense and hassle of buying the film and paying to get it developed!

😁

"Everyone say 'burnt retinas' on three!"

We had one of those when I was little 😊

Aw. Now I miss flipping the light tower. 😭

and i can smell this post.

Yup...we thought so!!!

Argh! Another vintage item I recognize well 😩🙄😂

Still have my Pocket Tele-Instamatic. They don’t make film for it anymore but you can’t have everything.

A flash stick! Haven’t seen them since the 70’s!

😂🤣😂🥰 I remember

Had one of those too.

I know it didn't happen, but I'm picturing that block coming off after the last flash with a Garand ping.

loved mine!

I can literally smell this post…

Amazing. What will they think of next?

I had that exact camera middle school

I enjoyed the noise, as the bulb burnt its entire element in one brilliant burst of shadow destroying light.

Always a little blinding as well.

using one of these bad boys turns you into a denim Michael Cera

Did that!

Then all you have to do is take the film to some stranger at the drug store to get developed.

I can smell this post!

Blinded by the light

I was going to say, blinding, but yeah.

I can hear Blondie and smell cigarettes

How many of you burned the hell out of your fingers trying to remove the bar too soon?

i can smell that flash

the era the picture quality was abominable. Then they copied Polaroid's instant-film technology and got caught for patent infringement.

Blame it on Flash Dance. youtu.be/VzALZjoIx0g?...

Uh oh! I just flash cubed back to the 70s

My mom worked at there company

It really was 35mm film with square images. I scanned some and they look pretty good.

It was! Shalom

Actually that was amazing. The offset between the higher flash and the lens reduced the red eye effect visibly. That's why you had to rotate the flash bar after haf the bulbs used.

I looked so cool, I collect the spent flashes as a kid

I remember my dad used those... from today's perspective, what a ridiculous waste though

I had a Vivitar camera like that except with a battery powered flash. 110 film made the crappiest photos.

I can smell this picture.

It was high tech in its time

My dad had that camera!!

Wow. This brings back memories

We didn't do it because every photo cost money, but it would have been fun to take the same picture over and over to see the shadows from the flash move.

I thought I was king shit with one of those 110 cameras. Screw that 35mm crap!

Only 68!

Flip Flash by GE

...but the pics weren't. A tiny negative meant even normal-sized prints were kinda soft-focus, and they got really fuzzy if blown up farther. But seemed like a good idea at the time...

I told everyone I was going to name my first child Sylvania Bluedot.

The precursor to the so-called "throwaway camera," although I'm pretty sure people threw instamatics away too...

😆

Hard to believe we could make such a tiny analog phone back then!

It’s a towering advance in photography…

My eyes

Yeah I remember the large blue flash bulbs.

Thank you for the walk down memory lane! ~drowns fears of aging in litres of wine~

Why I still don’t look directly at the camera when someone takes my photo.

My granny had this setup, she loved it.

I had one, but I took better pictures with a shoe box with a pinhole in it.

Yep, still have my Pentax ME Super

The small film required to fit the confines of the small camera body doomed the prints to low quality. It wasn't Kodak's finest moment.

Yes, smaller negatives. Perfect for Grandma, very east to load.

I recently scanned some 110 film and the images look like someone took a photo of a television screen. 😒

The red eye bar for a 110. They even made an extender for the 4 sided flashes to try to stop the red eye.

ooh that smell

I still have a pack of brand new ones, in the original wrapping! 

Hey, you MAY be having some fun here but, I HAD one of those cameras and boy-howdy, they took GREAT pictures! Big-ass photos! For that price, you could NOT be wrong!

My grandfather had one of these.

I remember those

I heard it can flash, REPEATEDLY!!

The new Holographic iPhone...the future is here

My sisters had one of these. I remember it as if it was yesterday!

You could stick those in an outlet if a person was willing to strip the wires. I am reliably told it was spectacular.

OMG! I remember seeing those big bulky flash bulb attachments on those cameras.

As a kid, loved the smell as much as from mimeograph paper.

Oh God, I miss mine! I could smell the flash

Old enough to remember. Smart thing!

OMG Yep I can attest to that

It really puts a dent in your retinas when all those flashes ignite all at once.

The new hi-tech Trump Camera! Very exclusive supply of film that you can mail to Trump Film processing centers! Only $499 for a commemorative gold picture grabber! 👍

Every flash got hot enough to melt the plastic window .

I remember those flashes! I loooooved them!

The worst film format ever invented, not counting the even worse Kodak disc thing.

Yeah that was much cooler. 😆

Still have these things sitting ‘round.😆

I got the passion for taking pics from my dad. My parents bought me this camera for Christmas when I was around 10-12 years old. Came with a holster holder. I loved it. My folks were the best.

It was