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:The instamatics are representing an era of modernism, just before the "post-modern" period, are a class of bricky cameras with a distinct kind of ugliness, the other simple optics cameras have the tendency to fall into the toy camera category, since the time of LOMO craze created that category. U. Kulick 16:22, 2 April 2008 (EDT)

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Can anyone explain why this is in the Toy Camera category, when, for example, Instamatics are not? This camera is all plastic, but reasonably well made and light-tight, and has an aperture adjustment - should it not be just classified as "snapshot"?

-- User:Awcam 30 March 2008, 21:35 BST

The instamatics are representing an era of modernism, just before the "post-modern" period, are a class of bricky cameras with a distinct kind of ugliness, the other simple optics cameras have the tendency to fall into the toy camera category, since the time of LOMO craze created that category. U. Kulick 16:22, 2 April 2008 (EDT)