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OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
DESIGNER: Teague, Walter Dorwin
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: July 1936
PRODUCTION DATES: 1936-1948
FILM TYPE: 828 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 28 x 40 mm
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $110.00, $117.00
2 LINKED COMPONENTS:
LENS: Kodak Ektar f/2.0 45mm UID: E130.00754
LENS: Kodak Anastigmat Ektar f/2.0 45mm UID: E130.00755
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS:
  1936-1940 Kodak Anastigmat Ektar f/2.0
  1941-1948 Kodak Ektar f/2.0
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Camera body styled by Walter Dorwin Teague, Black enamelled body with
  bright metal lines. Coupled rangefinder with helical focusing; direct
  vision optical finder; sideways opening baseboard.
  1936-40: Compur Rapid shutter
  1941-48: Supermatic (US) shutter

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00019
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 5

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//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. pp. 120.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//

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