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Posted by norm on April 06, 2001 at 11:18:16:
In Reply to: Re: Disposable Cameras posted by Francis Roy on April 05, 2001 at 22:41:36:
Several of Eastman Kodak's early models ca. 1898 were factory loaded with from 48 to 100 exposures. You sent the camera tp Kodak when you were finished and you got a reloded camera back with your pictures. Some one told me that the camera you got back was not necessarily the one you sent in. I have also heard that Kodak doesn't completely destroy the single use cameras but that they recycle a large portion.
: : : : I'm doing an assignment for Uni and need to locate information on Disposable Cameras. ie the date the first disposable camera was released. What makes up a disposable camera. I don't need to know how much they cost. This is the only info I can seem to locate.
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: : : : Regards Wendy
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: : : Fuji introduced the first disposable camera in 1986, thought the manufacturers like to use the term single-use instead of disposable. Kodak introduced their single use camera, the Fling, in 1987. Here is a link about disposables and the recycling that goes on, from the Kodak website:
: : : http://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/environment/performance/recycling/suc.shtml
: : : Hope this helps,
: : : John
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: : Fuji might have had the first Color one time use camera, BUT the first one was the
: : PHOTO-PAC [ McKeowns 11th Edition p-536] It came loaded w/B&W film that included processing 12 exposures 3.25" X 4.5"and return postage. The selling price of a large
: Dept Store in Boston was $ 1.49 , this was 1950 .
: The postage required to return the camera was 6cents !!!
: : Francis Roy
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