This is my latest vintage camera – the Kodak Duex. The Kodak Duex is a very unusal 620-format camera with a helical telescoping lens cylinder made from bakelite, creating photos with a negative size of 6×4.5cm. It was only made for a very short time from 1940-42 at a cost of $6, approximately $167 in [...]
The Jiffy Kodak Six-20 with the very stylish Art-Deco faceplate was produced between 1933 and 1937. It was Kodak’s entry-level offering at $7 ($314 in today’s money using the unskilled wage index). The Jiffy is different from most other folders due to the use of a parallel knee-strut system to support the lens, which allows [...]
This is my Kodak Medalist, made in 1943. The Medalist was produced through most of the 1940s and during the war many of the cameras were specifically made for the armed forces. The military versions, like the one I own, had a black anodized lens tube to reduce reflections in combat situations. I don’t know [...]
This is the Kodak Vigilant Six-20 camera, a classic folder that was made around 1946. This was a relatively simple machine for a time when there were already very complex cameras like the Medalist or the Monitor available. There is no protection against double exposures and the Dakon shutter can fire multiple times on the [...]
I thought I will maybe spend a couple of blog posts over the next months showing off some of the cameras in my collection. Let’s start off with one of the latest additions to my ever growing empire of vintage Kodaks: The Kodak Duo Six-20 Series II. This camera was built some time between 1937 [...]