Instamatic Rangefinder!

[fraley]

Spotted at a garage sale -- an instamatic rangefinder, the Kodak X-90. Seems to be a die cast body, heavy metal. Takes the old instamatic film cartridge. Nice viewfinder/rangefinder combined! Uses flash cubes. All in all, an odd duck. It had the original manual and a leather case that looked like it had been through some changes. Fascinating, if it used 35mm I would have snatched it up. It had a 38mm Ektar lens that actually looked pristine. Here's a picture I found of it with a quick search.

 

[ChrisPlatt]

There were some really nice Kodak Instamatics,
especially some of the ones made in Germany.
Too bad they use 126 film... 🙁

"Excelsior, you fathead!"
-Chris-

 

[WCOCHRAN]

Doe this mocel have the wind-up film advance? My father had one of this type and it had a hard case too. You could put filters on it and when the flash was needed, a little flashcube would light up in the viewfinder. Wow, this brings back some great family memories.

 

[pshinkaw]

This was the culmination of the "800 Series" Instamatic. *800, 804, 814 and finally the X-90. All had rangefinders, spring-wound film advance, a built-in Series V filter holder and shutter preferred automatic exposure. The 814 and X-90 had the Ektar lens and a CdS cell exposure sytem. Took excellent photos, even the triplet lensed 800 and 814.

-Paul

 

[WCOCHRAN]

Was the cell above the lens? If I can remember, the lightmeter was a rectangular section with beveled glass segments to it.

 

[pshinkaw]

Depends on whether it's the selenium cell or CdS cell version:

http://kodak.3106.net/index.php

-Paul

 

[WCOCHRAN]

I checked the website and it must have been the 804. I remember the blue model badge on the front of the camera.

 

[oftheherd]

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Fascinating, if it used 35mm I would have snatched it up. It had a 38mm Ektar lens that actually looked pristine. Here's a picture I found of it with a quick search.

You didn't buy it? !#%*&@# 😱 :bang:

How else can you feed your GAS? 😀

 

[John Robertson]

There were some really nice Kodak Instamatics,
especially some of the ones made in Germany.
Too bad they use 126 film... 🙁

"Excelsior, you fathead!"
-Chris-

Yes I remember the Kodak Instamatic 500 with Xenar lens, looked a beautiful camera, sadly my money only ran to the Instamatic 100( still in its box in a drawer somewhere)🙂