Disc Cameras: Kodak's Successful Failure
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Introduced to great fanfare by Kodak in 1982, Disc Cameras used an innovative film format featuring exposures mounted on a flat plastic disc, which allowed for an extremely compact film format and quick and easy film reloading. But while initially very popular, due to various technical issues such as poor-quality enlargements, the concept ultimately failed and the cameras were pulled off the market in 1988. SOURCES https://www.retroist.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-kodak-disc-camera https://web.archive.org/web/20150131002358/http://www.museumoftechnology.org.uk/expand.php?key=1139 https://web.archive.org/web/20160424235553/http://www.jollinger.com/photo/cam-coll/cameras/cartridge/63102_disc8000.html https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2014/05/02/whatever-happened-kodak-disc-cameras/8643517/ https://clickamericana.com/media/photography/what-happened-to-kodak-disc-camera-debuted-in-1982 http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Disc_film
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