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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Instamatic

1962, proprietary name (reg. Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, N.Y.) for a type of self-loading camera, from instant + automatic.

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Instamatic
''For the film formats associated with the Instamatic and Pocket Instamatic camera ranges, see 126 film and 110 film respectively.''

The Instamatic is a series of inexpensive, easy-to-load 126 and 110 cameras made by Kodak beginning in 1963. The Instamatic was immensely successful, introducing a generation to low-cost photography and spawning numerous imitators.

During its heyday, the range was so ubiquitous that the Instamatic name is still frequently used (erroneously) to refer to any inexpensive point-and-shoot camera. (It is also frequently used incorrectly to describe Kodak's line of instant-picture cameras, the Kodamatic series.)

The Instamatic name was also used by Kodak on some Super 8-based home-cine cameras.

Usage examples of "instamatic".

Simmons reached for leader listened on the headset of the satellite radio as he the small Instamatic camera he had secreted inside his was fed the latest from the Cube.

She picked the best examples of each car each trip and took an instamatic photograph of her screen.