General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Body: plastic or bakelite with aluminum trim/ finder hood is aluminum with leather over it/ lenses are glass with aluminum housings/ flash has a silver coloured plastic reflector & plastic or bakelite handle/ fabric neckstrap.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

12.0 cm

Width

13.5 cm

Height

23.0 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Still cameras

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Kodak

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Kodak Canada was founded by Eastman Kodak in 1899 in a Toronto shop where employees cut sheet film and fitted lenses on cameras to support the growing potential for a photographic market in Canada. As Canadian interest in photography grew, the company expanded across the country throughout the 20th century to produce in all aspects of photography including still and movie cameras, film, x-ray film, photocopy paper, and photographic chemicals under many popular names including Brownie, Kodacolor, Carousel, and Supermatic.

Function

To record still images on photographic film.

Technical

A brown and tan colour zone camera with a focusing scale that produced 2¼ X 2¼ inch images on 620 film using a fixed focus Kodet f/15 lens and a I and B shutter (McKeown, 119).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

.1: ABOVE VIEWING LENS 'KODAK DUAFLEX IV CAMERA'/ ON LOWER LENS IT STATES: 'KODAR LENS'/ INCISED ON THE CLIP THAT SECURES THE BACK IT STATES: 'USEKODAK 620 FILM'/ PRINTED ON INSIDE OF BACK 'MADE IN CANADA BY CANADIAN KODAK CO., LIMITED T.M. REG. CAN. PAT. OFF. THIS CAMERA DOES NOT TAKE 120 FILM. USE KODAK 620 FILM' & INSTRUCTIONS/.2: FLASH BEARS DECAL GIVING DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS, & INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING INFO: 'KODALITE FLASHOLDER/ LUMACLAD REFLECTOR/KODAK FLASHGUARD/ IS RECOMMENDED/ USE FRESH "C" PHOTOFLASH BATTERIES/ OR KODAK B-C FLASHPACK/ BASIC EXPOSURE RECOMMENDATION - FOR MORE DETAILS SEE CAMERA MANUAL' AND 'MADE IN CANADA T.M. REG. CAN. PAT. OFF.'/ 'KODAK/ CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Body sides are dark brown as is finder hood & housing, & flash handle/leather is grey & brown/ brown woven fabric neckstrap.

Decoration

N/A