Brownie 127

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Kodak Ltd.
NATIONALITY: English
PLACE MANUFACTURED: England, Harrow
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1952
PRODUCTION DATES: 1952-1959
FILM TYPE: 127 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 1-5/8 x 2½in.
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: several million
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Eyelevel rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  Meniscus f/14, 65mm
  Single speed 1/50 sec. shutter
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Moulded smooth plastic body with broad horizontal steps; optical
  direct vision finder. Between May 1953 and September 1954 263,000 of
  these were exported to America." (Coe: 51)
  1,000,000 made by August 1954

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.01081

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp49-51.//