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Folding camera for instant pictures 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Coated lens. Front cell focusing. Wheel stops, coupled with shutter, EV 11-18 with B facility. Direct vision optical finder. Flash synchronised, hot shoe. No. LC 550030. Polaroid Corporation. Supplied by Hambletons, 3 Norwich Union House, Western Road, Romford.

Polaroid Land Camera Model 80B

Photographic Technology

1954

Polaroid SX-70 Land camera model 2

Photographic Technology

1974-1977

Instant camera for PR10 instant film packs; 'Zooming Circle' focusing aid in finder; darken-lighten control; auto-exposure; built-in electronic flash. Brown plastic.

Kodak EK300 instant camera

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Polaroid Land camera 'Swinger Model 20' e, c.1968. built-in flash. Plastic carrystrap. Serial No F6511.

Polaroid Land Camera Swinger Model 20

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1968-1974

Polaroid SpiceCam 600 instant camera; built-in flash and carrystrap.

Polaroid Spicecam 600 Camera

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1990s

For SX70 film packs; fixed aperture; auto exposure; darken-lighten control; optical DV finder; flashbar socket; motorised film unit ejection.

Polaroid Land One Step camera

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Polaroid Onyx Image System camera. Transparent cut-away of camera. With Quintic lens f1.0/125mm.

Polaroid Onyx Image System camera

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Polaroid Instant camera, model 80, made by Polaroid Corporation, 1954. Grey colour. With hot shoe.

Polaroid Model 80 Instant camera

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1954

Model 95 Polaroid Land camera (the first Polaroid available to the public), c. 1948. With hot shoe. Serial No 0065804.

Model 95 Polaroid Land camera

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1948

Folding camera for SX-70 film packs; autoexposure; darken-lighten control; focusing through lens via mirror system, incorporating split image rangefinder; motorised film ejection.

Polaroid SX-70 Land camera

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The Button Polaroid Land Camera. A rigid plastic-bodied camera for instant photographs on SX-70 film.

The Button Polaroid Land Camera

Photographic Technology

1979

For PR10 instant film packs; auto exposure, darken/lighten control. Battery check; fixed focus; brightline finder; manual picture ejection; flipflash socket. In original packing with instructions, battery, neckstrap.

Kodak EK2 Instant camera

Photographic Technology

1977

FujiFilm Instax Mini 10 camera, c 2000. Instant film camera using 62x46mm film.

Fujifilm Instax Mini 10 camera, c2000

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1998-2002

Kodak EK1 instant camera. Overall: 140 mm x 180 mm x 135 mm.

Kodak EK1 instant camera

Photographic Technology

1978

Kodak Partytime II Kodamatic instant camera. Beige and brown design. Overall: 168 mm x 135 mm x 100 mm.

Kodak Partytime II Kodamatic instant camera.

Photographic Technology

1982

Polaroid Land Camera Model 1000 SE. A rigid plastic-bodied camera for instant photographs on SX-70 film.

Polaroid Land Camera Model 1000 SE

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1969

Kodak EK20 instant camera. Overall: 140 mm x 180 mm x 140 mm.

Kodak EK20 instant camera

Photographic Technology

1978

Polaroid Instant 30 camera. A non-folding plastic-bodied camera for instant pictures.

Polaroid Instant 30 camera

Photographic Technology

1978

Chrislin Insta camera. Manufactured from c1965-1969, a blue plastic box camera taking eight self-developing sixty second prints per roll. It was in direct competition with the polaroid Swinger camera which proved far more popular.

Chrislin Insta camera

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1965-1969

Kodak EK160 instant camera. Black with red lettering on front and multi-coloured strap. Overall: 170 mm x 140 mm x 110 mm. A solid-bodied camera for instant photographs on PR10 instant print film packs, fitted with an f12.8, 100mm fixed-focus lens and an electronic shutter - 2secs to 1/300sec. This was the European-sold version of the Kodak Colorburst 50 Instant camera.

Kodak EK160 instant camera.

Photographic Technology

1979

Rigid camera for Kodak Instant film packs PR10; fixed aperture; darken-lighten control on auto exposure; birghtline finder with 'zooming' circle focusing aid; manual picture ejection; flip-flash socket. Fitted with an f11, 137mm lens and an electronic shutter - 1/20sec to 1/300sec.

Kodak EK4 Instant camera

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1976

Made in Great Britain. Plastic moulded camera or double roll polaroid film packs; 2 1/4x2 1/4 inches. Simple lens, variable aperture coupled to comparison photometer exposure meter system. Squeezing sides of release knob lights lamp, illuminating checkerboard pattern lit by light from subject. Word NO changes to YES when exposure is correct. Distance scale for flash and exposure meter, Instructions on rear panel. Wrist strap.

Polaroid Swinger Model 20 camera

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1965-70

Polaroid Model P instant camera, 1999. Clamshell opening front; with built-in flash. Silver finish. Takes Polaroid 600 film.

Polaroid Model P instant camera

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1999

Polaroid Colorpack II Land Camera. A rigid plastic-bodied camera for instant photographs on Land film packs. This was the first of a long line of non-folding automatic cameras for instant photography. It was the first Polaroid camera costing less than $30 that could take both black and white and colour photographs. The Colorpack II camera was introduced in 1969 and discontinued in 1972.

Polaroid Colorpack II camera

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1969

For PR-10 instant film packs; body made of transparent plastic to show operation.

Kodak EK2 Instant Print camera - display model

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For PR10 film packs; lighten-darken control, auto exposure; zooming circle; focusing aid, brightline finder. Flipflash socket; manual print ejection. In original carton with instructions.

Kodak EK4 Instant camera

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The Polaroid Colorpack Land Camera was the first in a long line of non-folding automatic cameras made by Polaroid.

Polaroid Colorpack Instant Camera

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1973

Polaroid Automatic Land Camera Model 100, 'Automatic 100', folding bellows instant camera, with automatic exposure; used 100-series Packfilm; produced between 1963 and 1966.

Polaroid Automatic Land Camera Model 100, 'Automatic 100', c 1965

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1963-1966

For PR-10 instant film packs; automatic exposure; darken/lighten control; zooming circle focusing aid in brightline finder; flipflash socket; manual print ejection. In original carton.

Kodak EK4 Instant Print camera

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A rigid plastic-bodied camera for instant photographs. This was a version of the Kodak Handle Instant camera, manufactured for premium sales only.

Kodak Pleaser Instant camera

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1977-1982

Transparent display model of Kodak EK6 Instant Camera. Mechanism of Kodak EK6 camera, in transparent plastic case to show operation. Used for launching demonstration of Kodak Instant Print process.

Kodak EK6 - transparent display model

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1976

Instax 100 camera. Fujifilm isntant camera with 95mm fujinon lens.

Instax 100 camera

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For PR-10 instant film packs; automatic exposure; darken/lighten control; zooming circle focusing aid in brightline finder; flipflash socket.

Kodak Colorburst 100 instant camera

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Instant camera for HR-10 film packs; lighten-darken control; built-in electronic flash. In original packing with batteries, instructions etc.

Kodak EK160-EF instant camera

Photographic Technology

1980

The Polaroid Portrait Big Shot, an instant film camera that was specially designed to take instant portraits. Focussing is fixed at 1metre - the built-in rangefinder is there simply to tell the photographer that he is the correct distance away from the subject. This model was introduced in 1971 and discontinued about 1973.

Polaroid Big Shot Portrait Camera

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1971

Polaroid One Step 600 camera with neck strap. Overall (standing): height 138 mm x width 125 mm x depth (including lanyard) 200 mm, 0.5 kg

Polaroid One Step 600 camera

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Polaroid Onyx Image System camera, with filter kit and table top tripod, boxed.

Polaroid Onyx Image System camera

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Two instant cameras; FujiFilm Instax Mini 10 camera, c 2000; Polaroid vision auto-focus SLR camera, no date.

Two Instant Cameras

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Kodak EK10 instant camera. Overall: 140 mm x 180 mm x 140 mm.

Kodak EK10 instant camera

Photographic Technology

1977