Sylvania Disc VR100
Even Sylvania got into the Disc camera business. In 1986, they produced
the Disc VR100. Well, to be honest, they didn't actually produce it.
It's really just a re-badged, bare-bones, Ansco camera. Sylvania
had never marketed a camera before, but felt it was an opportunity to make
some money selling something that that actually did produce -- flash bulbs
-- a dying product in 1986. Most disc camera either opted to include
a built-in flash or left it off completely. The Disc VR100 picked a
novel route by using a Flip-Flash -- which was about twice as big as
the camera! Needless to say, it never sold well since the flip-flash
defeated the purpose of having a tiny camera. Sylvania soon stopped
selling their disc cameras, and not long after that, they stopped making
flash bulbs.
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