How Is a Disposable Camera Manufactured?
Lens & Body The body of a disposable camera is a modern variant of the old “box camera” concept introduced by Kodak. Box cameras were made to be inexpensive to manufacture. Users were expected to either send the camera back to the manufacturer or bring it to a camera shop for processing. Lenses in disposable cameras are made of molded plastic. Most disposable cameras contain a single plastic lens that focuses the light on the film plane. A few disposable cameras offer very limited multi-element zoom lenses. Disposable camera lenses are fixed aperture, often in the range of f/11 to allow the image to be in focus from around 4 feet to infinity. The lens is press fitted into the molded plastic body. Mechanical linkages are built in to the body to advance the film, release the shutter and, if the camera has a flash, turn on the flash. Film & Flash Film is loaded into the camera. In some cameras, the film is pulled from the canister by the winding mechanism. These types of cameras require t
