Kodak Smile Classic Review: Large Prints Can’t Save This Instant Camera | Digital Trends

Nostalgia has a death grip on the camera industry, and if there’s anything that the Kodak Smile Classic instant camera offers, it’s the retro design takes you back to Saturday mornings spent watching cartoons from a rabbit-eared television or evenings spent dying of dysentery on the Oregon Trail. The Kodak Smile Classic instant camera (made by Kodak licensee C+A Global) starts up with a melodic beep that sounds like a 90s handheld video game — a sense of nostalgia that continues throughout the clunky, plastic body. The metadata even dates the photos for 1979.

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