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Which Board? => Main Forum => : moominsean September 25, 2010, 03:04:02 AM

: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: moominsean September 25, 2010, 03:04:02 AM

This is a sweet looking instant camera from 1972 that doesn't seem to have ever been produced. Interesting how much classier it looks than the Polaroid cameras. And a waist-level viewfinder!

If you click on them, you get a slightly bigger, easier to read copy.

Simpro did make a 126 "slip on" camera, but I can't find anything else.

: Re: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: johann September 25, 2010, 11:02:19 AM

Haha ! I love the lightmeter !
"Take the photo now ! Not now ! Now ! Now ! What are you waiting for ?..."

: Re: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: gothamtomato September 25, 2010, 01:01:37 PM

Wow. I'm guessing Polaroid shut them down before they got to market?

: Re: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: Francois September 25, 2010, 02:57:25 PM

When you check the Landlist, you'll see that there are many companies that also produced Polaroid compatible cameras. The reason Kodak was sued by Polaroid is that they produced their own type of instant film... I'm still surprised Polaroid won this one since both technologies were so widely different (Kodak was more like the Fuji Instax than anything else)

: Re: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: original_ann September 25, 2010, 03:17:11 PM

I love it!!!

: Re: Interesting camera #30 (that never existed)
: gregor September 25, 2010, 06:33:13 PM

interesting they took out a full page ad in popular science but it didn't seem to make it to market...