The Limbo Connection's photos with the keyword: Kodak Instamatic 204

After this, the Zenith was a revelation.

The Kodak Instamatic 204 was made in the U.K. It was introduced in January, 1966 and withdrawn in November, 1968. It used 126 film cartridges and flashcubes. It had a 41mm lens set to f/6.6. The shutter fired at either 1/40th or 1/60th of a second, depending on how you set the dial at the front. People bought Instamatics in their millions because there wasn't any tiresome roll-film handling and fiddly controls to understand.

The first Zenit-E models were produced in the KMZ plant in 1965. Over 8 million were manufactured. The Kodak Instamatic 204 was made in the UK between 1966 and 1968. Of course it was cheaper than the Soviet Zenit, but the results were often terrible. The Zenit was a single-lens reflex camera based on the Zorki rangefinder body. The Zorki line of rangefinder cameras was originally a direct Leica copy. Therefore, Zenit = Leica. (Maybe). The Zenit pentaprism is small, thus what you see through the viewfinder is only about two-thirds of what will be recorded on the film. Nonetheless it is vastly superior to a point-and-shoot camera with film in a cartridge lacking a proper pressure plate to keep it flat and even. Many Zenit cameras were supplied with a Helios-44 lens of 58mm focal length and a maximum aperture of f/2. This lens was a Soviet copy of the Carl Zeiss Biotar lens and had distinctive bokeh characteristics. So Helios = Zeiss. (Possibly). Photograph made with a Nikon D700 + a Micro-Nikkor 55mm f/3.5 AI lens.

This photograph of a photograph and sundry identity spoilers was made with a Nikon D2Xs with a 55mm f/3.5 Micro-Nikkor AI lens. The original photo dates from 1973 and was taken with a Kodak Instamatic 204 camera.

The Kodak Instamatic 204 was made in the U.K. It was introduced in January, 1966 and withdrawn in November, 1968. It used 126 film cartridges and flashcubes. It had a 41mm lens set to f/6.6. The shutter fired at either 1/40th or 1/60th of a second, depending on how you set the dial at the front. People bought Instamatics in their millions because there wasn't any tiresome roll-film handling and fiddly controls to understand.