General Information

Serial #

VERT

Part Number

1

Total Parts

3

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Plastic body, lens and flash dish. Metal lens board. Nylon strap. Leather case.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

46.0 cm

Width

11.5 cm

Height

15.5 cm

Thickness

N/A

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Photography

Category

Still cameras

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Kodak

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Toronto

Context

Country

Unknown

State/Province

Unknown

Period

Unknown

Canada

Kodak Canada was founded by Eastman Kodak in 1899 in a Toronto shop where employees cut sheet film and fitted lenses on cameras to support the growing potential for a photographic market in Canada. As Canadian interest in photography grew, the company expanded across the country throughout the 20th century to produce in all aspects of photography including still and movie cameras, film, x-ray film, photocopy paper, and photographic chemicals under many popular names including Brownie, Kodacolor, Carousel, and Supermatic.

Function

To record still images on photographic rollfilm.

Technical

A solid body eyelevel rollfilm that produced 2¼ X 2¼ inch images on 620 film using a meniscus film with a 3 aperture lens. Metal box body with optical direct vision finder; accepts cumbersome flashgun. Renamed Six-20 Flash Brownie camera (Ref. 4). Styled like Brownie Starflash camera, but larger size for 620 film (Ref.5).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Info. on lens board reads: 'BROWNIE FLASH 20/CAMERA/Kodak'. Info. under camera: 'USE 620 FILM’ and ‘CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED TORONTO CANADA'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Blue plastic body. Brown leather case. Black nylon strap.

Decoration

N/A