Editing Instant camera (section)

===Kodak (EK and Kodamatic) {{anchor|kodamatic|colorburst|kodakinstant|kodak}}===
[[File:Kodak EK100.jpg|thumb|left|Kodak EK100]]
Kodak's EK and Kodamatic series cameras were introduced in 1976,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ortner |first1=Everett H. |title=Kodak's Instant Picture Camera |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DgEAAAAAMBAJ&q=kodak&pg=PA54 |access-date=10 February 2020 |work=Popular Science |date=1976 |archive-date=3 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703104346/https://books.google.com/books?id=DgEAAAAAMBAJ&q=kodak&pg=PA54 |url-status=live }}</ref> and accepted a Kodak developed integral instant film, similar to but incompatible with Polaroid's SX-70 film. The film was chemically similar to Polaroid's with the exception that the negative was exposed from the rear and the dye/developers diffused to the front of the photograph. This alleviated the need for a mirror to reverse the image before it struck the negative.

Even so, Polaroid brought a patent-infringement lawsuit against Kodak, and eventually Kodak was forced to stop manufacture of both the camera and film.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=DgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=kodak%27s+instant-picture&pg=PA128 "Kodak's instant-picture camera"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703104346/https://books.google.com/books?id=DgEAAAAAMBAJ&dq=kodak%27s+instant-picture&pg=PA128 |date=2023-07-03 }} ''Popular Science'', July 1976, pp. 54.</ref> Kodak was also left to pay a settlement to some customers who were left without a way to use their now defunct cameras. One settlement offered owners of Kodak instant cameras a credit towards a new Kodak camera. Many Kodak instant cameras still exist and can be found on auction sites. Kodak also lost the contract to manufacture Polaroid's negatives which subsequently took production in house. Recently photographers tried to use Instax mini and square film inside the Kodak EK4 being somewhat successful and only being able to load one picture at a time in a darkroom.[[File:Fujifilm Instax 500AF Instant Camera Front.jpg|thumb|Fujifilm Instax 500AF camera]]
[[File:Instax mini 50S.jpg|thumb|Fujifilm Instax Mini 50S camera]]