The Kodak Instamatic is a family of consumer cameras introduced by Kodak in the 1960s, built around the 126 drop-in film cartridge to make loading easier for casual snapshooters. The range covered everything from very basic fixed-focus models to more capable rangefinder and reflex variants, and was sold in large numbers as an entry point into colour photography.

Sales data for Instamatic cameras as a group is extremely thin, with a single recorded UK auction hammer result of £420 in 2008 — a wholesale saleroom figure that almost certainly reflects a boxed lot or a scarce variant rather than a typical example. In the present 2026 market, common Instamatic bodies generally sell for very modest sums at auction, while higher-end models such as the Instamatic Reflex tend to command more; without broader data, a reliable price band for what an average Instamatic is worth today cannot be quoted from this dataset alone.