Kodak pocket Instamatic 500 camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1972-1973 in Harrow

maker:: Kodak Limited

Pocket camera for 110 film cartridges 13 x 19mm. Coated 3 element. FL 26mm f/5.6-16 lens. Electronic shutter 1/300-20n seconds, powered by mercury cell eg Mallory 7434. Red warning light for over exposure, orange ditto for exposures over 1/30s sec. Used magi cube signal in brightline viewfinder which has parallax marks for 6' or nearer. Magicuvbe flash socket. With manual aperture setting and automatic shutter setting on insertion of cube. Provision for time exposures over 20 secs. In original packing. Kodak Limited. 1972-1973

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/2608

type:: compact camera and cartridge camera

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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