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E130.00053


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Brownie Starflash

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Coca-Cola Brownie Starflash
SEE ALSO: Startech Camera
INTRODUCTION DATE: Mar. 1957
PRODUCTION DATES: March 1957-June 1965
FILM TYPE: 127 rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 1-5/8 x 1-5/8in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $8.50
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Eyelevel rollfilm
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Dakon with rotary shutter
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  Also made with red body, 1958-1960, and with white or blue body,
  1958-1962.
  Model with bright red body and Coca-Cola decal, 1959-1961.
  "Molded plastic body, optical direct vision finder"
  Built-in flash reflector for M-2 bulbs (US) or "capless"
  bulbs (Europe).
  .
  "This camera was supplied in an outfit for close-up photography as the
  Kodak Startech camera." (Coe: 54)

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00053
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 2457

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 --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//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.54.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//

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Brownie Starflash

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