Remember when Cameras had the Square Flashes

[Jodi1980]

that turned after the flash was used?

 

[powellrj]

flash cubes!! I loved those cameras!!

 

[Pin Wizard]

Kodak Instamatic. Got one for my 8th grade graduation.

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

I had one in 6th grade!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Amazing where photography has come in the past 20-40 years.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/youngds/110Cameras/Kodak60/KodakPocketInstamatic60.htm

 

[themepark]

I had one too. It took 110 film. My grandmother had a camera that you held below your eyes and looked down into it to take the picture. I think it took 126 film?? The pictures came out square with rounded corners.

 

[Melora]

Originally posted by themepark
I had one too. It took 110 film. My grandmother had a camera that you held below your eyes and looked down into it to take the picture. I think it took 126 film?? The pictures came out square with rounded corners.

We have pictures from when I was about 10 that were square with rounded edges.


I have a ton of polariod pix too from one of those huge cameras that you had to pull the piece off of the front after you pulled the film out of the camera. Right now I want to scan some of those pix but my scanner (which is suppposed to be excellent for old pix) will not scan them without turning them purple.

I dont know what to do....

 

[4greatboys]

OMG Im old!! I remember all of that Well I guess Im not THAT old otherwise I wouldnt remember any of it

 

[grinningghost]

Oh sure! And if you were really unlucky (which I often was) you would get a dud on one of the four sides and get ripped off. Ah, the joys of flashcubes!

 

[Stepharoonie!]

Yup, I remember those. I had an old Fisher Price camera with the fake flashcube on it, and I tormented my parents by making it flash all of the time.

If memory serves me, when you looked through the camera viewfinder, all you would see were monkeys, giraffes, etc. It was kinda odd

 

[Poohbear123]

Yep, remember those and the first Poloroid cameras.

 

[klmklm]

melora -- maybe you can take a photograph of your pictures with another camera. you will probably need a tripod or some way to steady the camera. might need a zoom lens.

 

[buzzlady]

I think the brand or type I used was Magic Cubes.

 

[faithinkarma]

I remember them as being a great innovation. Before that the camera we used had individual bulbs, about the size of a fridge bulb, that had to be inserted before each picture. You put them into a bowl shaped thingamabob that attached to the top of your camera.

 

[mum4jenn]

I had the camers that also used the magic cube. They were hard to find and all the other flash cubes did not work on it.That was a really good camera though (for that era)

The pictures that had the rounded corners were not because of the film... it is just the way the did it back in the 70's. It was so neat though when they first came out with the borderless pictures. My pictures from my very first trip to WDW had those. This was back in 75 or 76 because I saw the Bicentennial Parade.

 

[MomofKatie]

Wow, this thread really dates us all! My mom had a Brownie camera that had the single flashbulb you screwed in. I had a Kodak pocket 110 camera that used the innovative Flash Bar!! I remember that every time the flash was used, each chamber of the flash bar kinda melted.

Stepharoonie, I had one of those cameras, too! Was yours wood or plastic? The really old ones were mostly wood with a little bit of plastic trim. The later ones were all plastic. Mine, I'm sorry to say, was wood. I feel as old as the hills!

 

[faithinkarma]

A Brownie ! That's what they were called. A Brownie Hawkeye !

 

[themepark]

Stepharoonie I had one of those Fisher Price cameras! I had forgotten all about it. I drove my parents crazy with it too!

 

[Virgo10]

The really old Polaroids had a stick of some kind of gel that you had to use to coat the pictures after they came out of the camera. After you did that you had to wave the photo in the air to dry it. To this day, even though the coating stick is long gone, people still fan their instant pictures.

Roberta

 

[spb999]

Then after the flash cubes came the flip flashes that you could take four or 5 pics then flip it over and take 4 or 5 more.....