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- OBJECT TYPE
- CASSETTE
- DATE
- 1970–1976
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1987.0463.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd.
- MODEL
- INSTAMATIC X-15
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 2
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Body, lens & viewer - plastic/ interior clip is metal (tin) & other small interior metal pieces/.2 vinyl case with padded cotton interior
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 15.0 cm
- Width
- 10.0 cm
- Height
- 7.0 cm
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Photography
- Category
- Still cameras
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Kodak
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Toronto
Context
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- 1970s - 1980s
- Canada
-
The Kodak Instamatic camera range is one of the most successful mass markets in the history of photography. Their specification ranged from a basic box camera to an automatic model making these cameras simple in construction and easy to use (Coe, 97). Kodak Canada was founded by Eastman Kodak in 1899 in a Toronto shop where employees cut sheet film and fitted lenses on cameras to support the growing potential for a photographic market in Canada. As Canadian interest in photography grew, the company expanded across the country throughout the 20th century to produce in all aspects of photography including still and movie cameras, film, x-ray film, photocopy paper, and photographic chemicals under many popular names including Brownie, Kodacolor, Carousel, and Supermatic. - Function
-
To record still images on photographic film. - Technical
-
A camera that produced 28 X 28 mm on 126 film using a fixed focus f11/43 mm lens and a two-speed shutter. This was the first Instamatic model to use the new "Magnicube" or "X-cubes", which require no batteries (McKeown, 155). - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- .1 ABOVE LENS IN RAISED SILVER LETTERING ON BLUE BACKGROUND IT SAYS: 'INSTAMATIC X-15'/ BELOW THIS IN WHITE PRINTED LETTERING ON BLACK BACKGROUND 'CAMERA'/ ON AN AFFIXED PLASTIC PLATE 'KODAK MADE IN CANADA'/ ON INSIDE OF BACKCOVER IN RAISEDLETTERING 'MADE IN TORONTO CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITEDREGISTERED TRADE-MARK USED KODAK 126 FILM'.
- Missing
- N/A
- Finish
- Body is black with silver section across front top third/above lens is a blue section where the camera's name is printed/ carrying case is dark brown & black trim on exterior - interior is bright red.
- Decoration
- N/A
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Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd., Camera, between 1970–1976, Artifact no. 1987.0463, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1987.0463.001/
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