The Kodak Disc Camera
&gt; The Kodak Disc camera was introduced with great fanfare in 1982. The new cameras were lightweight, foolproof (with auto-exposure and built-in flash), affordable, and used a brand new kind of film cartridge.<p>My dad owned a darkroom&#x2F;photoshop&#x2F;one-hour lab for about 30 years starting in the 70s. I worked for him for about 5 of those years centered around highschool.<p>There is absolutely no such thing as a foolproof camera. You would not believe all the ways people can screw up even the most &quot;foolproof&quot; of designs.<p>As just one example: with a traditional 35 mm camera, the film unspools from its lightproof cartridge onto a take-up spool in the camera. When you reach the end of of the roll, you press a button on the camera to release a clutch, then you turn a knob to rewind the film back into its cartridge before opening the camera back and removing the film.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filtergrade.com&#x2F;load-film-35mm-camera&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;filtergrade.com&#x2F;load-film-35mm-camera&#x2F;</a><p>One obvious and easy to make error is accidentally opening the camera back before rewinding the film, usually ruining (&quot;fogging&quot;) all the pictures you shot. :-(<p>But what you wouldn&#x27;t guess someone would be able to do is to rewind the film without releasing the clutch. Doing so requires a large amount of force because you&#x27;re tearing the sprockets off the side of the film where it travels over the gear that&#x27;s normally used to advance the film.<p>Any yet, this is something I saw more than one time. Customers would never admit to doing this, but I mean, come on, we&#x27;d open the cartridge to remove the film for development and the sides would have been torn off and there&#x27;s only one way this happens.<p>Then there&#x27;s the questions... no, dropping the exposed film did not blur the images.