"Assisting in the demonstration and sale of Eastman home movie equipement." Published monthly. Collection includes Vol. 1, No. 1 (March 1931) to Vol. 12, No. 6 (1942).

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras and projectors.

Item is version of the 17/5 mm "Hit" style miniature film cameras originally produced by the Tougodo camera company in the 1940's to 1960's. This model, the Colly, has a fixed focus, 30 mm, F11 lens with a set shutter speed of 1/30th of a second. This model also includes a compass, to the right hand side of the viewfinder. The company also manufactured panchromatic film designed to fit the camera. Item is accompanied by a leather carrying case.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 100 instant camera with a Magicflash. The camera was produced by Kodak to replace the EK4 and was priced to compete with the Polaroid Pronto! series. It has a tiny electric motor powered by one J‐size battery that is good for a minimum of 10 packs of film. This model also has a low‐light signal that indicates when you should switch to flash.
Colorburst cameras offer a focusing scale around the lens, and a zooming circle in the finder as a focusing aid. This model has an automatic electronic shutters, focus‐linked flash automation, and a sensor that prevents the flash from firing if the safety cover is in place or the film pack is empty.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 200 instant camera. The camera was produced by Kodak to replace the EK6 and was priced to compete with the Polaroid Pronto! series. It has a tiny electric motor powered by one J‐size battery that is good for a minimum of 10 packs of film. This model also has a low‐light signal that indicates when you should switch to flash, as well as a battery check light.
Colorburst cameras offer a focusing scale around the lens, and a zooming circle in the finder as a focusing aid. This model has an automatic electronic shutters, focus‐linked flash automation, and a sensor that prevents the flash from firing if the safety cover is in place or the film pack is empty

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 350 instant camera with an electronic flash and close-up lens. It retailed for $96.50 USD when it came on the market.
Camera has faceplate attached; rare, as in 1976 Polaroid launched a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement. After a fifteen year legal battle, Polaroid won and Kodak wrote them a check for $925 million, which was the largest settlement ever paid in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel barred the company from the instant-photo business. Due a class-action suit, Kodak then had to buy back the cameras for as it could no longer supply film so it offered a refund for customers if they mailed in the faceplate.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is an automatic exposure single-lens reflex 35mm camera. Metering is center-weighted and aperture priority.

Item is a 35mm camera with a built in electric 3 frames per second motor winder powered by four AA batteries that also run the metering and shutter timing. The camera has modes for aperture priority and manual.

Item consists of a Contax camera body for photographs on 35mm film. Camera body is all-metal, die-cast with eye level penta-prism, shutter speeds of B-1/1000 second and hot shoe. Lens mount is a Contax/Yashica with a Yashica 35-105mm zoom lens. Works with 4 AA batteries. Includes manual.

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish on top and trim. Winding and speed setting on top right, shutter speeds to 1/1250, and rangefinder and viewfinder windows combined. Lens is a Sonnar 50mm, 1:2.

Item is a 4.5 x 6 cm strut-folding plate camera with a black leather-covered metal body and wire folding frame. Camera uses a Carl Zeiss Jena Troitar f6.3/75 mm lens.

Item is an inexpensive plastic "3-D" stereo camera made by the Coronet Camera Company. The camera has a binocular viewfinder for 4 stereo pairs or 8 single exposures and uses 127 film for 4.5 x 5 cm exposures, featuring a single speed shutter, 1/50, and a twin f11 meniscus fixed-focus lenses.

Photograph of baby and cat, with illustration of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, it originally sold for $74.95, but now usually sells for around $20. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash and a built-in mechanical timer. Serial number is EX119478.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, it originally sold for $92.95, but now usually sells for around $10. It comes with a manual. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash and has a glass lens with an aperture of f/8.8.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. It comes with a manual. It originally retailed for $59.95 and now sells for around $20. The flash uses an M3 bulb and the lens is 2 element plastic. The options for aperture control are f/8.8, f/42 and shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. It is similar to Polaroid Model 210 and Model 315 with the addition of a built-in mechanical timer. Serial number is DB254542.

Item is a "hit" type novelty camera for 14 x 14 mm exposures on 17.5 mm paper-backed rollfilm.

Item consists of a compact, digital camera with a black metal body. Lens is a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar with 4 x optical and 2 x digital zoom, a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second to 1/1600 of a second, an aperture range of F2.8-F5.8, and an effective focal range of 32-128 mm. The CCD optical sensor has a resolution of 7.2 mega pixels and the ISO range is 100 to 3200. The camera includes a built-in TTL flash, requires a Sony NP-BG1 lithium ion battery, and features "Advanced Face Detection" technology and camera orientation detection.

Photograph of older man smiling at two women in graduation caps and gowns, and photograph of camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes affordability and use of camera advertised.

Item consists of a brick-shaped brown plastic camera. It creates 40 24 x 32 mm exposures on 35 mm film in special cassttes. The camera uses a Graf Anastigmat f7/7/40 mm lens with a single-speed shutter that trips by counterclockwise motion on the winding crank.

Item is a black/gray camera used with 120 cartridge film, includes a 75mm lens. Mainly used as a promotional item due to cheap quality.

Item is a black bakelite minicam for 3 x 4 cm. on 127 film.

Series contains cameras that are designed to capture images using sensors and digital storage media instead of film, as well as pre-digital cameras that combined digital technology with film.
The digital camera replaced the traditional film camera in all but a few niche markets very quickly; as of the beginning of the 21st century, all amateur and most professional photogrpahy now takes place in the digital format. These early cameras track the rapid increase of image quality and camera optinos avilable to the consumer.

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Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. Comes with a case, manual, dental equipment and with a selection of close up lenses. The maker of this camera specialized in modifying Polaroid cameras for dental and forensic work. It was based on a Polaroid 600 series Supercolor camera, but the Sonar focus was locked to a specific point and disabled, and a mount was fitted to the camera enabling the lenses to be changed. The viewfinder modified, as well as the flash, through the use of diffusers. The flash also was fitted with a slide to reduce the power and balance exposure. Due to their custom built nature, this and other Dine cameras are rare. Serial number is H9K7551VDD.

Item is a small strapless box camera with a single viewfinder that uses 127 film for 4x6.5cm exposures. Some versions are identified "Ansco Dollar Camera" on the front but this specific one only has "Ansco" on the front. This model also came in black, green, and red. The red version with a strap is known as the "Kiddie Camera".

Photograph of man holding a hoop while a collie jumps through it, with illustration of camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex camera. Features include automatic exposure using selenium light metering, with 3 sensors positioned around the lens, a Lanthar 2.8 50mm lens, and Prontor-Matic-Y shutter.

Item is a copy print that is accompanied by the following description: "Workers in the early 1900s assembling the Number 4A Folding Kodak camera, considered to be the ancestor of all modern folding roll cameras."

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras, projectors, and other accessories.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture projectors, cameras, and other accessories.

File consists of three 3-ring binders, created between 1929 and 1943, containing detailed, illustrated instructions and equipment lists designed to serve as reference material for those responsible for repairing Kodak still and motion picture cameras. Information contained within the binders was created and distributed on a subscription basis by Eastman Kodak Company. Subscribers would receive periodic updates of information, which could be added to the binders over time.

Item is a copy print featuring an image with the caption: "This is an artist's depiction of the Edison Kinetoscope parlour which opened April 14, 1894 at 115 Broadway in New York City." I-88-1454

Item is a subminiature camera for 12 x 17 mm exposures on unperforated or single perforated 16 mm film in Super 16 cartridges. The camera has a coupled accessory lightmeter and a detachable metal chain. The item has a programmed shutter B, f2.8/30 to f22/150, and uses a Schneider Xenar f2.8/25 mm lens. This camera has the inscription " Wirgin Wiesbaden-West-Germany". All Edixa 16 cameras with this inscription were made by Frank Werk.

Item is a small camera with a rectagular body made of black plastic and a green #1 on the top. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it is a basic camera with fixed focus and a flipflash connector. Made for the Canadian market, this camera is labelled in French and English, and reads "appareil Kodak EKTRA camera" in silver above the green #1.

Item is a small camera with a rectagular body made of black plastic and a green #2 on the top. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it is a basic camera with fixed focus and a flipflash connector. Made for the Canadian market, this camera is labelled in French and English, and reads "appareil Kodak EKTRA camera" in silver beside the green #2. The Ektra 2 is unique in that it features an exposure guide for different types of film printed on the base in white.

Item is a small rectangular camera with a black plastic body, flip out lens, and a 22mm f/5.6 lens. Made for the Canadian market, it reads "appareil Kodak EKTRALITE camera" beside a silver on green number "30".

Item is a wood and brass folding tailboard wet plate field camera, likely of English manufacture, for 10.7 x 8.2 cm (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation with square bellows, hinged ground glass focusing screen, and no shutter. Bellows are extended by twin tracks. The slide out lens board has a mounted brass lens, of unidentified manufacture, with rotating aperture wheel and leather lens cap.

The camera is very similar in design to a 1/4 wet plate camera model designed by W. Morley, London, but does not have the identifying makers marks.

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, likely of English manufacture, for (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation, bellows are extended and clipped in place with keyhole slugs and focused using twin tracks. The fixed lens board has a mounted f8 brass Taylor Taylor and Hobson brass lens with no shutter.

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Item is a folding camera for use with leather carrying strap.

Item is black, pressed steel, miniature folding camera for 1¼" x 1⅝" exposures on E10 film. The camera has a fixed focus lens and rotary shutter, the faceplate has a stripped geometric design. The model numbers on the Ensign Midget corresponded with the original sales price, with this model costing 22 shillings when manufactured.

Item is a folding camera for 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (3.8 x 5.7 cm ), exposures on Ensign E1 or Eastman Kodak no. 128 size roll-film. The camera has black leather bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model, with two medallions on the front plates, was manufactured in 1911 or later (earlier versions had plain front plates).

Item is a black painted brass body folding camera for 3" x 2" exposures on Ensign 2E roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model has a brass body and wheel stop aperture dating it from prior to 1920, when the company switched to aluminum.

Item is a folding camera with black bellows and a leather carrying strap. The camera has a Aplanatic f10.5 lens. The body of the camera has a black leatherette covering with the impression of "ERNO" on the front and "C.M.F" on the back.

Item is a double 8 cine camera taking 25' spools, optical eye-level finder and spring motor with Reichert Solar f1.9/12.5 mm. This item was produced in the late 1950's and is accompanied by a leather bag, original user's manual and orange lens filter. Written in the small pocket of the bag : Alfred Silverman, 44 Barclay RD, Downsview, Ont. Small knob on the back used to record.

Item is a 35 mm. film camera designed by Karl Nüchterlein and produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk company in Dresden, Germany. The Exakta has interchangeable lenses, 1/30 - 1/60 Horz. Shutter and an Accura Diamatic 1:2.8 28mm lens attached.

Item is a small format camera for 35mm exposures on 127 film. The kit includes a carrying case, Weston Master II light meter, filters, waist level viewfinder, lens hood and extender tube. Lens is a Carl Zeiss Jena Pncolar 50mm f2 lens.

Item is a small format camera for 35mm exposures on 127 film. The kit includes a carrying case, Weston Master II light meter, filters, waist level viewfinder, lens hood, Bushness Reflect Adapter, extender tube, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm lens and Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm lens. This camera outfit is designed for macrophotography and photomicrography and includes attachments for a micorscope.

Item is a 35mm stereo camera with CdS metering. Manual or automatic exposure. 24 x 29mm images. Industar-81 F2.8/38mm lenses. Comes with leather pouch, sun shades, small parts, and hard plastic case.

Item is a print featuring an image with the caption: The first Kodak camera, introduced in 1888, sold for $25, loaded with enough Eastman film for 100 exposures. It produced a 2 1/2 inch diameter negative.

Item is a black leather covered folding camera with leather bellows, for exposures on 120 roll-film. Camera has a Marvel shutter with 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, B and T settings, an aperture range from6 6-45, and a brilliant viewfinder. A focus guide plate from 5 feet to infinity is mounted on the camera rail.

Photograph of two adults skiing across a snowy mountainside, and illustration of two cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Color photograph of woman cross-country skiing up a snowy hill, with black and white photograph of four cameras advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes the cameras advertised.

An advertisement proof mounted on yellow foam-core: "No. 1A Pocket Kodak Serie for the kind of pictures you like". Published in Toronto Saturday Night Magazine, 1925)

Photograph of couple standing outside a house in winter coats filming with a Ciné-Kodak Eight camera. Text contains consumer information.

Item consists of a colour poster featuring an image of the Kodak FunSaver Weekend 35 one-time use camera and it's original packaging.

Item is a one-time-use, 35mm, 15 exposure camera. No flash, for exterior use only, produces wide, panoramic prints. New in box, film expiration date, July 1996.

File contains copy prints featuring an image of George Eastman and Thomas Edison. Caption adhered to versos read: "George Eastman, (left) and friend Thomas Alva Edison, early collaborators. Edison purchased one of Eastman's first "snapshot" cameras. The continuous roll of film it held became the basis for Edison's invention of his first motion picture camera."

Item is a wood and brass folding tailboard field camera, likely of German manufacture, for 18 x 13 cm (7" x 5") exposures on glass plates. Camera is equipped with square bellows, hinged ground glass focusing screen, and no shutter. Bellows are secured with pins, when extended, inserted into keyhole slots. The slide out lens board has a Rodenstock Bistigmat 13 x 18 lens with rotating aperture wheel. The camera is equipped with 2 plate holders for use with 18 x 13 cm (7" x 5") glass plates, with a wooden adapter insert to hold smaller 12 X 9 cm (3.75" x 2.5") plates.

Photograph of children sledding in the snow, with 4 illustrations of cameras being advertised. Text contains personal handwritten note, along with consumer information about the cameras being advertised.

Photograph of children sledding in the snow, with 4 illustrations of cameras being advertised. Text contains personal handwritten note, along with consumer information about the cameras being advertised.

Photograph of child sitting on a window seat with a doll next to her. Text contains consumer information.

The Graflex RB is a single-lens reflex camera, the last of the family of field cameras known as "Graflex cameras", in contrast to the "Graphic" Graflex cameras. This model was produced between 1928-1947. It features a rotating back (abbreviated to RB), 4" x 5" plate holder, a light-excluding focusing-hood, interchangeable film holders, extensible lens with hood, and a f/4.5 anastigmat lens with a focal length of 7-1/2 inches (190mm), and is is designed to be held at waist height for use. The Graflex was used in the USA Navy and favoured for its ability to capture outdoor and action scenes. The aperture and tension can be adjusted according to the shutter speed plate, a table mounted on the side of the camera indicating adjustments. The Graflex RB series D is composed of straight-grain Honduras mahogany covered with black Morocco leather and chrome details.

This camera is accompanied by a carrying case of wood, black leather, and green felt. It contains one camera instruction manual: "Instruction manual for Graflex Cameras: RB Super D & RB Series B: Also Earlier Models including Series B, RB Series D, Auto, RB Auto, Auto Jr., RB Tele & RB Jr." It also contains 7 film holders and one replacement rotating back. The back piece is inscribed with: "Graflex Cute film Magazine: Pat Sept 7, 1920 Other Patents Pending: Made in U.S.A. by Folmer Graflex Corporation Rochester, N.Y., U.S.A., 43. For use of this alternate back, the camera back must be removed and rotated.

Illustrations of couple and woman using cameras and of three of the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information. Headline is cut off at upper edge.

Illustrations of couple and woman using cameras and of three of the four cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information. Headline is cut off at upper edge.

Item is a battery-powered Handle II instant camera with an option for exposure control and crank handle ejection. Flash is a Kodak Instant Flash Model A attachment; lens is 100 mm, f/12.7; shutter is an electronic 2-1/300. Due to a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement, which the company lost, Kodak was forced to pay a large settlement fee and stop producing instant cameras and film.

Item is marked with the Hanimex brand, though the camera was manufactured by the Vivitar Corporation. It is a 110 format camera with a built-in flash powered by two AA batteries. It has a fixed focus. The photographer can select either a normal or telephoto lens, by using a slide switch on top of the camera.

Item is a camera.

Color photograph of woman posing on a beach chair, and black and white photograph of Ciné-Kodak K and Magazine Ciné-Kodak cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Color photograph of woman posing on a beach chair, and black and white photograph of Ciné-Kodak K and Magazine Ciné-Kodak cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Color photograph of woman posing on a beach chair, and black and white photograph of Ciné-Kodak K and Magazine Ciné-Kodak cameras. Text contains consumer information - describes use of cameras advertised.

Item is a hand-held motion picture camera for filming motion pictures on 8mm film. Includes a 13mm f/2.:3 Kodak Ektanar Lens with aperture selector wheel.

Item consists of a Kodak Hawkeye 8 Movie Camera. The camera was patented by Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, and was made by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited. It has a Kodak Ektanar Lens 13m f/2.3 and is made of plastic. It used 8mm film and was sold for 19.99 when released in 1963.

Item consists of a Kodak Hawkeye 8 Movie Camera. The camera was patented by Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, and was made by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited. It has a Kodak Ektanar Lens 13m f/2.3 and is made of plastic. It used 8mm film and was sold for 19.99 when released in 1963.

Item consists of two copies of an illustrated instruction manual for Kodak's Hawkeye 8 movie camera.

Item consists of a black cardboard box camera with leatherette covered metal front. The camera has a single reflex finder.

Item consists of a landscape format, colour, board poster that features an image of a folding camera surrounded by other photographic Kodak supplies, including Kodak Film, Kodak Acid Fixing Powder and a darkroom lamp.

Item is a typewritten timeline of the development of the Kodak camera from 1888 to 1978.

Item is a camera

Item is a black bakelite camera for 25 x 37 mm exposures on 828 rollfilm.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of projectors and other accessories for use with Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras, projectors, and other accessories.

Item is an illustrated guidebook detailing techniques for making motion pictures with Kodak's Ciné-Kodak Special camera.

Photograph of children sledding, with illustrations of 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains handwritten personal note and consumer information.

Photograph of children sledding, with illustrations of 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains handwritten personal note and consumer information.

Photograph of children sledding, with illustrations of 4 cameras being advertised. Text contains handwritten personal note and consumer information.

Photograph of two women in coats and hats discussing the Cine-Kodak Eight movie camera; a young child sits between them, petting a rabbit. Text contains consumer information - describes the camera's affordability and the option of full-color Kodachrome film.