{"product_id":"kodak-starmite-ii-camera","title":"Kodak Starmite II Camera","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWHAT CONDITION THE CONDITION IS IN: AS IS. Not film tested. This Kodak Starmite II\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eis in remarkably good condition for its age. Perfect candidate for display, maybe even shooting. Scroll down to learn why this camera thinks it’s remarkable. Spoiler: it has a point.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA grey plastic box, small enough to slip into a coat pocket, sitting on a drugstore counter in 1962. It's utterly unremarkable, and yet that's the whole point.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Kodak Starmite II wasn't trying to seduce you; it was trying to democratize you, to hand a twelve-shot slice of memory-making to anyone with a couple of dollars and a sunny afternoon, from Rochester to Coburg to Paris, where the French, of course, insisted on renaming it the Starluxe II.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt's a camera of contradictions: sharp at the center, dreamy at the edges, which is rather like most people's recollections of the Sixties. It features a rotary shutter that fires with a metallic ping so charmingly inelegant it sounds like someone flicking a tin can.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe dual-aperture lever toggles between f\/11 and f\/16. Three countries built it and yet every variant clicks, winds, and vignettes in precisely the same way. It's a kind of global consensus the twentieth century managed to achieve in plastic and glass, if nowhere else.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Starmite II won't flatter you, won't lie to you, and won't pretend the corners of your photograph aren't going soft.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kodak","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48201918677179,"sku":"BROW-KODA-35MM-F1.8-FILM-127-100193","price":18.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0645\/6960\/6331\/files\/download_49377f1b-c63b-449e-8b36-5ae6bb698cba.jpg?v=1785966569","url":"https:\/\/www.foxandtalbot.com\/products\/kodak-starmite-ii-camera","provider":"Fox and Talbot Cameras","version":"1.0","type":"link"}