{"product_id":"kodak-ektramax-110-camera","title":"Kodak Ektramax 110 Camera","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb id=\"docs-internal-guid-bb47de12-7fff-33d3-710f-555027c38fa2\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. Overall not great shape for the body. Some corrosion on the battery terminals and debris in the edges. Lens appears clear. \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eScroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"markdown markdown-main-panel md-content enable-luminous-fast-follows enable-updated-hr-color stronger tutor-markdown-rendering\" id=\"model-response-message-contentr_edc539a4fe2f6ae9\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eEvery once in a while, an object shows up with something to prove, and isn't that always the most interesting kind?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIn 1978, Kodak, a company perfectly content to sell the world cheerful, forgettable snapshots, decided to make a camera with opinions: the Ektramax, a 110-format pocket camera that looked at the Canon 110ED and the Pentax Auto 110 and said, hold my beer.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIt packed a 25mm f\/1.9 Ektar lens, one of the first mass-produced aspheric lenses ever handed to an amateur, into a body still small enough to call itself a \"pocket camera,\" though that's a bit like calling a Great Dane a lapdog.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eThis copy, serial 637816, dates to somewhere around late 1979 or 1980, though Kodak, in its infinite wisdom, kept no registry of individual units, so we're left doing archaeology with a camera that still takes better pictures than most of us deserve. Feed it something like Lomography Tiger 200 today and the thing still performs a small miracle: shallow depth of field from a film format designed for grandmothers photographing casseroles, indoor shots with a clarity that shouldn't be possible from a negative smaller than a postage stamp.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eIt has its indignities, of course: a battery door latch with the structural integrity of a stale cracker, a flash capacitor that fails with the theatrical timing of a diva, a girth that makes \"pocket\" feel like false advertising, but that's the price of ambition, isn't it?\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" dir=\"\"\u003eThe Ektramax never got the empire it was promised, but it left behind a small, stubborn proof that even the humblest format can be made to sing, if only someone's brave enough to ask it to.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918873787,"sku":"SUBM-KODA-25-F1.9-FILM-110-100199","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_1b054907-8ee5-480a-b767-5845a7617d7f.jpg?v=1785966577","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/kodak-ektramax-110-camera","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}