General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

4

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal and bakelite, plastic construction, glass viewer and lens.

Dimensions

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

Length

13.7 cm

Width

10.0 cm

Height

9.6 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

North America

State/Province

Unknown

Period

1950's, 60's and 70's

Canada

Produced by Canadian Kodak and sold by Camera House Ltd. This model was popular throughout North America. 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

Has either instantaneous or bulb shutter settings. Has a fixed focus 75mm f/15 Kodet lens. There are two inputs on the lower right corner of the camera for a flash connection. Camera uses 620 film.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

On camera face: 'CANADIAN KODAK COMPANY, LTD./ MADE IN TORONTO, ONT. CAN.' and 'KODET LENS/ Kodak [Co. logo]/ DUAFLEX CAMERA'; On top of camera: 'USE KODAK FILM 620'; Inside camera: '[Distributor sticker] CAMERA HOUSE LIMITED/ 207 SPARKS STREET/ OTTAWA' and 'Use KODAK/ 620 FILM/ VERICHROME . KODACOLOR/ PANATOMIC-X . PPLUS X . SUPER XX/ PAT. U.S.A. DES. 140, 909 PAT. PENDING/ T.M. REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. PRINTED IN U.S.A. # 99744/ Note: This camera will not use 120 film'.

Missing

Complete

Finish

Black with mat silver trim.

Decoration

N/A