General Information

Serial #

CYRI

Part Number

1

Total Parts

2

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Vinyl exterior covering. Metal trim. Metal body. Plastic lens housing. Metal shutter housing. Ground glass lens (2). Metal & plastic hood.

Dimensions

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

Length

23.0 cm

Width

14.0 cm

Height

18.5 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

‘Ko[d]ak’ insignia on top of camera hood; Info. on camera face reads: ‘KODAK Duaflex IV camera/ KODET LENS’; ‘USE/ KODAK 620/ FILM’ engraved into metal release at back of camera. Info. inside camera reads: ‘KODAK DUAFLEX IV CAMERA/ 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’ [followed by film insertion instructions]; Serial number inside camera ‘CYRI’.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Exterior covering- brown & silver. Body- brown. Lens housing- brown. Shutter housing- brown. Hood- brown.

Decoration

N/A