Photoblaster
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The Nickelodeon PhotoBlaster (Long Hall Technologies model N6800) is a compact "kid's" camera which has the useful feature of being able to take 4 images onto a single 35mm frame of film, one shot at a time. The camera uses standard 35mm film, and has a built-in viewfinder and flash, and works by shooting with 2 fixed lenses. The camera was sold for about $40 retail. It makes taking 35mm film photos very cheap. Instead of 24 shots on a standard 24-exposure 35mm roll, you can get 24 * 4 = 96 shots for the same cost of developing. The photos are intimate "vignettes." The quality is decent. It's not meant as a professional camera. The four images tend to vary in spacing, driving photofinishers nuts. The camera itself was made in China. LongHall Technologies stopped manufacturing the camera before the 1999 holidays. Subsequently the Photoblaster has become somewhat hard-to-find, as a kind of photography "collector's item."
The Nickelodeon PhotoBlaster was manufactured until 1999 by Long Hall Technologies of Farmingdale, NY.
