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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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Duggan showed bar patrons images of Donohue eating rations with his ambush patrol unit, photos he took with the Kodak Instamatic camera his mother sent him in Vietnam.

From New York Times Sep. 27, 2022

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

His parents give him an Instamatic camera, a new sketchbook, colored pencils and the mechanical pen he’d asked for, and twenty dollars to spend as he wishes.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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