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...year, for the first time in nearly a decade, cameras and films for amateurs are undergoing a revolutionary change. The new American cameras are not only easy to operate but, more important, easy to carry. They are so compact, compared with their predecessors, that they can be toted in pocket or purse, more like a wallet or a pack of cigarettes than a piece of hand luggage. The era of pocket photography is here, and it promises to make the camera a spectacularly more usable possession. If leaders of the photo industry are right, many consumers will want to carry...
...small-camera sweepstakes began three months ago when Kodak introduced its five-model line of pocket...
Instamatics, priced from about $28 to $128 and weighing from 5.6 oz. to 9 oz. Only one inch thick and capable of being tucked into a shirt pocket, they produce remarkably true color prints that are one-third again as large as those processed from the old-style Instamatics, which were more than three times bulkier. The more expensive models automatically control exposure and tell photographers when to use a flash cube. Next week Kodak will turn out the one-millionth new pocket camera, and company chiefs hope to sell 4,000,000 during the first year. So far, they...
...project designation, SX-70, and the film for it already rolling off the assembly lines is being packaged in blank boxes, which will be imprinted when Land finally makes up his mind. The camera is just the first of what eventually will be a whole family of pocket Polaroids...
...confinement was not to be punishment, Garrity stressed, but a "sanction designed to compel answers" from Popkin. He added that Popkin had "the key in your pocket" to end the sentence at any time by consenting to provide the information...