General Information

Serial #

2675

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Metal/ leatherette/ cloth/ chrome

Dimensions

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

Length

22.6 cm

Width

9.8 cm

Height

4.0 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

1928-1928

Canada

Intended for advanced amateurs, the Autographic Kodak Special 2C was among the most expensive of the Kodak line. In 1924, it cost ten times the price of the Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak camera (Eastman Kodak Company, 1924). 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 folding rollfilm camera that produced 2? X 4? inch images on 130 film using a Kodak anastigmatic 152mm lens and a kodamatic shutter with an aperture size of f/6.3. It had an adjustable focus, seven shutter speeds, and a range finder.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

'AUTOGRAPHIC SPECIAL MODEL A' ON MIDDLE OF BED/ 'KODAK' ON BED SUPPORT/Mfr's plate reads: 2C Autographic Kodak Special Model-A/Made in Canada by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited, Toronto. Text above lens reads; Kodak Anastigmat f-6.3, 152mm, no. 850.'

Missing

No

Finish

Black metal & leatherette body/ chrome trim/ black cloth bellows

Decoration

N/A