AXIS M3011 NETWORK CAMERA

Manufactured in 2002 by the Eastman Kodak Company. A 27 exposure 35mm disposable camera with flash. What makes the Max HQ unique among single use cameras is that it has a glass Ektanar lens. Kodak went to great trouble to get photofinishers to return the cameras to them for recycling and they did reuse the glass lens (after checking it) and the flash components. Combining the glass lens with the modern 800 ISO film makes the camera a great general use indoor camera that was known for it’s sharp images.

Are disposable cameras collectable? First, they are a phenomena of the late 20th / early 21st century. The more proper term “Single Use Camera” and they brought photography to the truly occasional photographer. They became unique for the odd features and varieties. And their use is now engrained in our culture—who doesn’t put out several at their wedding reception for the guests to snap pictures of each other! And, by their specific nature, they are destroyed. So common today that they hang at every grocery checkout line, but one day they’ll be rare. You decide…

take ii / nolan in the window.
fujifilm disposable, via crown hill value village.
expired 2008.