Eastman Kodak Company/ Kodak AG., Stutgart, Germany
Kodak Junior 620
A basic 6x9 folding roll film camera, which uses 620 film format. The 620 film was introduced by Kodak in 1931 as an alternative to the 120. It is nearly the same film on a slightly different all metal spool.
There are a large variety of Kodak cameras with a model name "Junior". If you just mention "Kodak Junior" you might mean one type in a group of over a dozen different cameras.This Kodak Junior 620 is one of the latest models. The Production begun in 1933 by Contessa Nettel Germany and was terminated in 1939. (In Germany)
The lens is Kodak Anastigmat 1:7,7/10,5cm. The shutter speeds are T, B, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, 1/125. You may notice a self timer but not a flash contact because there isn't´t any. The shutter release is as usual on the shutter housing which also has a cable-release socket.
The camera has a waist level and a frame eye level viewfinders.
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Kodak Six-20 Junior
After WWII production of Kodak Junior cameras was continued mainly in England and France. No markings about the manufacturer can be found in this version either. It looks older, but you should not knock a dog looking at the fur. Presumably it is only a cheaper version. Differencies in details also indicates that they origin is not the same.
This one has Kodak Anastigmat 1:8,8 lens. Shutter speeds are T, B, 1/25 and 1/75 sec.
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| Disc format cameras, an effort to make loading the camera as a piece of cake. |
| The easy loading flat Disc film, which is packed in a black plastic cartridge was intoduced by Kodak in 1982. Each disc captures 15 images measuring a measly 8.2mm x 10.6mm, just enough for a decent 10x15cm (4x6 inch) print. A typical disc camera is very thin, though quite large because of the disc format. Unfortunately, the image size was just too small to allow decent quality, Kodak stopped producing cameras in this format in 1990, although film discs remained available until the1998. Efforts to make loading easier and easier through format 124, 110 and then Disk continued with APS (Advantix) was over when the digital cameras appeared to the stage. |
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 Kodak Disc 3600 , 1986-1990
This model is powered by two AA size batteries (not integrated as in Disc 4000) and the more modest lens is protected by a fold up cover
Lens: 4/15mm
Shutter: 1/100
Negative: 8x10mm
Battery: 2xAA
Kodak introduced these tiny disc cameras in 1982 and hoped that the high-quality lenses and precision manufacturing would compensate for their tiny image. It was a nice idea but...
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Kodak Disc 4000,1982 - 1984
Lens: 2,8/12,5mm
Shutter: 1/100, 1/200
Negative: 8x10mm
Battery: Integrated (The manual did not tell how to change it)
Where to get Disk Film ?
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Minolta ac 101(1983)
Disc camera designed by a French designer André Courreges . A more advanced Disc camera by Minolta. It has a 12.5mm (f2.8) zone-focusing lens and two shutter speeds 1/100 and 1/200. Other features are a flash and a close-up lens. The ac 101 model was available in several pastel color schemes such as pink in a white-color wave pattern. MORE ABOUT DISC CAMERAS. (Sub Club) |
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