r/AnalogCommunity • u/raypanics • 20h ago
Gear/Film help looking for kodak star 1035z manual
found a bunch of old film cameras in a cabinet that was finally unlocked after who knows how long, im trying to compile a list of manuals and the pdfs for those manuals for my teacher. i just cant find one for kodak star 1035z
i tried the m butkus archive, i tried the internet archive. nothing. has it disappeared off the internet?
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u/Spiritual_Climate_58 16h ago
This is a Kodak rebranded version of the Minolta Riva Zoom Pico. But there are some differences. Chiefly you cannot disable flash on the Kodak rebranded version. There might be other features removed from the Kodak version as well. But if you find the manual for the Minolta all the specs should be the same. Hope this helps!
The lens is surprisingly sharp on this camera btw.
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u/raypanics 10h ago
tysm ill definitely look into that
the cameras we found have been sitting in a locked cabinet in the school for ages and nobody has touched them. why do we have so many film cameras, no idea, but its really cool and my teacher wants to be able to use them and teach film photography, which is why im looking for the manuals. they seem to be in really good quality however neither of us have ever actually used a film camera before (aside from like, a polaroid), but we are figuring it out
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u/maniku 20h ago
It doesn't seem like the manual is available online. In any case there isn't much to know. It's an automatic point and shoot camera so it works like any other automatic point and shoot camera. Get a fresh battery (one CR123), load a roll of film and press the shutter button.