This is a viewfinder instant camera produced by Kodak from 1982-1986. It used Kodamatic Instant Film, and originally cost $77.95 and at the end of its sales it sold for $29.95. The camera used Kodak HS144 Instant film no longer available. The shutter is Electronic and it has speeds of 1/15 of a second to 1/250 of a second. The camera also has a fixed 100mm f/12.8 lens and has a built in flash unit.
In 1976, Polaroid’s only great competitor, Eastman Kodak, launched its own line of instant cameras. Kodak’s lawyers and engineers believed that they’d dodged and weaved their way around Polaroid’s patents; Polaroid emphatically disagreed, and a week later sued. After a 14-year legal battle, in 1991 Kodak was finally ordered to pay Polaroid a total of $909 million, $925 million with interest. Kodak had to write a check for the largest settlement ever paid out in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel, in a serious rebuke, barred the company from the instant-photo business altogether. Owing to a class-action suit, Kodak had to buy back all the cameras for which it could no longer supply film. Kodak had already stopped all production in 1986.