1987 Kodak Disc 3600 camera

Kodak's disc film was an ill-fated attempt to provide a more convenient alternative to 35 mm camera film. Unfortunately the extra convenience did not outweigh its disadvantages of only 15 exposures per disc and poor photo quality, so it never really caught on, and nobody makes new disc film anymore.

This camera is still in its original packaging and even came with the original(?) Kodak batteries inside, which have absolutely no trace of acid or corrosion, and one of them even is still good!

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[ForgetfulCollector]

My neighbour still has two of these cameras, a cheaper one and a more expensive version.

[vwestlife]

I still see these disc cameras in thrift stores all the time, but never any film for them (or ones with film still in them).

[TheGeek1028]

OMFG I have that exact same battery tester. You got it from RadioShack, right?

[vwestlife]

Yup! Unfortunately it is not very good quality... now I have to push and hold the slider part to get it to make contact with the battery.

[Trance88]

Too bad you dont have a film disc just for an example. It kinda looks like a CD player inside.

When I first saw the title to this video I thought this camera was going to be one of those Digital camera predecesors that saves pictures to a memory card and then makes them vewable on a TV.

[vwestlife]

I see these disc cameras at the thrift store all the time, but they never actually still have a film disc inside. Like Frritzz said, many people probably one exposed one disc, then decided it's not worth it and threw the camera in a drawer, never using it again.

I remember when my cousin got one of the first inexpensive digital cameras, back in the '90s. The picture quality was about as miserable as CBL's new $20 camcorder. :-P

[luigi90900]

Derp.

[luigi90900]

Can I have it?

[Tungzout]

I say it took okay pictures. The thing that was really good about this camera seemed to be that motion was captured in a CLEAR freeze frame. Never a blur. You could try to duck and still be caught on camera while ducking, and the picture was CLEAR not smudged or blurred due to motion. Some cameras today do not like motion.

[sgtpepper1138]

How would you go about processing the disk?

[chulofelipe]

I have this exact camera and I still use it once in awhile when I can find film on eBay. If you get film that expired 1994 to 1999 there is a good chance the photos will come out. Dwaynes in Kansas still processes the film.

[godelnahaleth]

I remember my kindergarten teacher taking our class picture with an original Kodak Disk, and then I remember these ones coming out because I wanted one, but my parents wouldn't get it for me. In '87, I would've been in 1st grade, so I had to ask my parents. X-)

[hattree]

I saw a company that develops this film for over 35 bucks a disk

[cuteycindyhoney]

I got a disk camera on my tenth birthday! It took crappy pictures, but i loved it anyway!