CAMERA ICONS
If you were born in the 1960s or grew up in that decade, there’s a very good chance that the key milestones in your early life were documented by an Instamatic camera… most likely badged Kodak, but possibly also from Hanimex, Halina, Ricoh, Agfa and Minolta among quite a few others.
Kodak made its name – and, for many decades, its millions – devising cameras to bring photography to the masses. It was the lifelong obsession of the company’s founder, Georgeits side. The actual image area of 26.5mm square gave rise to the film’s designation of ‘126’.