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This camera revolutionized photography. Whatever happened to the Kodak Instamatic?
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Date:2025-04-14 03:05:12
With Halloween around the corner, it's a good time to look back at how a people used to capture family memories.
The Kodak Instamatic camera was called "revolutionary" when it hit the market in a huge way in March 1963. The public and industry analysts alike loved the Instamatic for its simple-yet-sophisticated features. Consumers snapped up more than 70 million Instamatics and shutterbugs everywhere snapped "Kodak Memories" like never before.
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