Kodak Super Six-20 camera
Folding camera for 620 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". Kodak Anastigmat Special lens No 689, F:100mm, f/3.5-22. Five blade shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Aperture setting coupled directly to photoelectric cell for automatic exposure control. Helical front-cell focusing coupled to split image rangefinder with triangular central field, combined with viewfinder. With leather hand strap. Lever wind-on. No 59714. The camera was designed by Joseph Mihalyi and styled by Walter Dorwin Teague.
Kodak Super Six-20 camera made by the Eastman Kodak Company in the United States, 1938-1944.
Folding camera for 620 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". Kodak Anastigmat Special lens No 689, F:100mm, f/3.5-22. Five blade shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Aperture setting coupled directly to photoelectric cell for automatic exposure control. Helical front-cell focusing coupled to split image rangefinder with triangular central field, combined with viewfinder. With leather hand strap. Lever wind-on. No 59714.
Advertised as the ‘Latest, greatest Kodak… Plus amazing new ‘Electric Eye’ that makes automatically correct exposures’. The camera cost $225 when new, and around 719 were made before it was withdrawn in 1944. The camera was designed by Joseph Mihalyi and styled by Walter Dorwin Teague.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/1744
- Materials:
- metal (unknown), white metal (unknown), glass and leatherette
- Measurements:
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overall: 220 mm x 110 mm x 150 mm,
- type:
- folding camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
