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Check out these fun cameras that look like anything but your usual snapper. Say cheese!

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Camera Crazy, a charming new book available through Prestel Press, features the history of toy and novelty cameras and their popularity spanning more than a century. These inexpensive, often kitschy cameras thrived during the analog film era and are still popular in the digital age. The Mick-A-Matic, the 1971 camera pictured here, used 126 film and flash cubes.

John K. Putnam
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Camera Crazy is published through Prestel Press, and is available on Amazon.

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