General Information

Serial #

74872

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Bakelite body and square telescoping front. Metal sides and finder. Plastic film circle window. Glass lens. Metal shutter.

Dimensions

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

Length

11.2 cm

Width

4.0 cm

Height

6.8 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 a photographic roll film.

Technical

A solid body eye level rollfilm that produced 28 X 48mm images on 828 film with a Kodalinear f/8 lens (Coe, 14). The Bantam F8 provided a larger alternative to the 24 x 36mm images of standard 35 mm film (McKeown, 97). The 828 film "took 8 exposures 28mm wide on 35mm wide film strip. The new film made better use of the film area by using a single perforation on one edge to mark each frame" (McKeown, 97). The Bantam F8 used a compact Bakelite snapshot camera with a single speed shutter, the square lens housing retracts flush with the body, a feature seen re-introduced many years later on (Ref.3)).

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

Yellow sticker inside camera reads: 'Use../KODAK/..828 FILM' followed by patent info. and 'CANADA 1938/ PRINTED IN U.S.A. NO. 74872'; Lens reads: 'KODALINEARf:8 40mm'; Incised on silver metal latch: 'KODAK BANTAM F.8/ MADE IN CANADA BY/ CANADIAN KODAK CO. LIMITED/ TORONTO, ONT./ OPEN-LOCK'.

Missing

N/A

Finish

Black wrinkle finish body and polished square. Black painted finder. Silver polished sides. Green plastic. Silver shutter.

Decoration

N/A