General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

6

AKA

camera kit

Patents

N/A

General Description

Black and silver synthetic camera body; clear synthetic lens and viewfinder window; flash housing has bright silvered reflector hood. Black synthetic fibre strap fixed to camera has silver metal fittings.

Dimensions

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

Length

12.7 cm

Width

8.0 cm

Height

6.0 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. The Brownie camera was designed by Frank Brownell in 1898 as an inexpensive yet reliable camera. The name was adopted from popular characters created by Canadian born illustrator and author Palmer Cox in the 1890s, making the Brownie camera a marketing success until the last one was made in 1980. [Ref. 1]

Function

To record still images on photographic film.

Technical

Produced twelve 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 inch images on 127 film. The Starflash also had a Dakon lens with fixed focus from five feet and beyond, an eye level optical viewfinder, black and white and colour aperture settings, a built in flash for cap- less bulbs, and a rotary shutter. [Ref. 1]

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

All controls, settings, etc. labelled. Markings on camera front include: "Brownie", "DAKON/ LENS", "STARFLASH CAMERA", "13 COLOR" and "B&W 14". Chart printed on camera back reads: "KODAK FILMS/ B&W (14)/ COLOR (13)/ APPROX. DISTANCE IN FEET/ M2 LAMP/ 6-16/ 6-9/ MS M25 LAMP/ 9-24/ 9-13/ USE OF FLASHGUARD RECOMMENDED".

Missing

4 flash bulbs and 2 batteries missing from camera kit box.

Finish

Black and silver synthetic camera body; clear synthetic lens and viewfinder window; flash housing has bright silvered reflector hood. Black synthetic fibre strap fixed to camera has silver metal fittings.

Decoration

N/A