{"id":83,"date":"2024-11-08T20:26:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T20:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/specialcollections\/cavanaugh\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2025-03-10T16:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:37:01","slug":"kodak-instamatic","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/home\/automatic-cameras\/kodak-instamatic\/","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Instamatic 100 c.1963-1966"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the 1960s, roll film cameras still deterred mass photography because unloading and reloading film was sometimes a hassle\u2014and if not properly done could damage the image. Kodak introduced Kodapak film cartridges with the Instamatic cameras in 1963. This new &#8220;Drop in Loading&#8221; made photography even more accessible to the amateur photographer. Loading and unloading film was now safer, easier, and faster.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live-umbc-wpms-test.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"https:\/\/live-umbc-wpms-test.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"Kodak Instamatic 100, 1963-1966. Front view, angled to left.\" class=\"wp-image-130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-2048x1371.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/KodakInstamatic100front-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the 1960s, roll film cameras still deterred mass photography because unloading and reloading film was sometimes a hassle\u2014and if not properly done could damage the image. Kodak introduced Kodapak&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":130,"parent":79,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.umbc.edu\/cavanaugh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}