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I will quote my late father, from back when he was working as Customer Service manager at a Kodak Canada Kodachrome and Ektachrome processing lab:
"There have been more great photos taken with Instamatic and other box cameras than all the 35mm SLRs combined".
 

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MattKing said:
"There have been more great photos taken with Instamatic and other box cameras than all the 35mm SLRs combined".
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Depends what you mean by a "great photo". If it means a photo that is privately treasured, you're father's statement holds true. If it means a photo of social, cultural, or historic significance, it's not even close to true.
 

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Don_ih said:
Depends what you mean by a "great photo". If it means a photo that is privately treasured, you're father's statement holds true. If it means a photo of social, cultural, or historic significance, it's not even close to true.
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It is somewhere in between the two examples.
Whether or not a photo achieves a large audience does not determine its quality - just its familiarity to others.
 

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Absolutely true, the camera that is used has very little to do with making of an exceptional photo.

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MattKing said:
Whether or not a photo achieves a large audience does not determine its quality - just its familiarity to others.
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A "large audience" is not required for something to be culturally, socially, or historically significant - but it does need to exert enough influence for that claim to hold. And it has nothing to do with quality. Quality also doesn't make something either publicly significant or privately treasured. There are many high quality landscape and still life photos that no one on earth cares about in the slightest.
 

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I recently purchased one. It has a hot shoe.
 
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