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Six-20 Flash Brownie

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Brownie, Six-20 Flash
SEE ALSO: Brownie Flash Six-20
INTRODUCTION DATE: Dec 1940
PRODUCTION DATES: 1940-1946
FILM TYPE: 620 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 2¼ x 3¼in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $4.25; $5.90
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Eyelevel rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: meniscus, rotary shutter
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Name changed to Brownie Flash Six-20 in 1946. First flash synchronized
  Kodak camera. "Metal body, optical direct vision finder, flash synch
  cumberson flash gun" (Coe, B, 1988).
  .
  Brownie Flash Six-20 sold for $5.90.
  Six-20 Flash Brownie sold for $4.25

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00050

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. p.70,45.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//

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