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Instamatic

American  
[in-stuh-mat-ik] / ˌɪn stəˈmæt ɪk /
Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a pocket-size, fixed-focus, snapshot camera.


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Partnered with Kodak’s Instamatic camera, the Flashcube’s adaptability, portability, and ease of use made interior photography possible for the masses, without prerequisite skill or expertise.

From Slate ● Dec. 21, 2021

But this time it was to see a world’s fair, and he could record it all on his grandmother’s primitive Kodak Instamatic X-15.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 10, 2021

Charcoal, pencil, printed texts, research binders, gelatin silver prints, newspaper ads and columns, Instamatic snapshots, photocopies, early videos — these and other materials dodge chromatic play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2018

The surviving snapshot, taken by his mother on her Kodak pocket Instamatic, shows an incongruous couple.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2015

We bought an Instamatic camera with which to document our life together, and I took pictures of her posing in front of the Prudential building, so that she could send them to her parents.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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