Keystone: EverFlash 1030

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Keystone: EverFlash 1030

Postby bill339 » Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:52 am

The Keystone Everflash 1030 was one of Keystone's Disc film viewfinder cameras without motor-driven film advance. It had a thumb cocking-slider like a cheap 110 pocket camera. But it had an automatic built-in electronic flash and its focusing could be switched from portrait to landscape and vice versa by sliding a close-up lens in front of the landscape lens. The camera was introduced in 1992 and discontinued 1995. Other features are a flash on/off switch, flash ready LED, an optical viewfinder that is cropped when in close-up mode, film type view window plus frame counter port on the back cover, and a built-in adjustable carry strap. The camera is powered by two AA batteries that are accessed at the bottom of the camera. Because the camera was manual frame advance that loaded the shutter the 1030 could be used without batteries for daytime outside pictures. The film was introduced by Kodak in 1982 and officially discontinued by the last manufacturer, Kodak, on December 31, 1999, though the cameras had disappeared from the market long before then. In 2012, Hèrm Hofmeyer in The Netherlands and Film Rescue International in Canada cooperatively developed a method to produce fresh disc films, and about 30 fresh B&W and color discs were made. A detailed protocol on how to manufacture such discs at home was released in 2020. Some of this information was gleaned from Wikipedia.

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