WHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested, but it comes with a 'Kodak Demonstration Disc'. Scroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.

The engineers who designed the Kodak Disc 4000 weren’t fools. That's what makes the whole thing so interesting.

The Kodak Disc 4000 arrived in February of 1982 with the kind of fanfare reserved for things that are either genuinely revolutionary or spectacularly misguided. It was, in the way interesting failures can be, both at once.

It housed the first mass-produced aspheric lens in a consumer camera, a 12.5mm f/2.8 four-element optic that Kodak's engineers had genuinely agonized over. This was paired with a custom ASIC managing a dual-speed electronic shutter and a CdS sensor doing its earnest best to make every sunlit picnic and dimly-lit birthday party look equally mediocre.

The brushed-aluminum front plate felt serious, and the sliding lens cover that doubled as a power lock felt designed. The little electronic whirr-click of the internal motor rotating the film disc felt, to 1982 ears, like the sound of tomorrow. It wasn't. Kodak quietly killed the camera in the late 80s and the film in 1999.

Expired vintage stock produces results that could generously be called "impressionistic." Its overall design is often incorrectly labeled as a rangefinder by people on eBay who've confused the appearance of sophistication with the thing itself. It's a mistake, it turns out, that Kodak also made.