In Focus Vol. 1 No. 1

Item is a group portrait of four children (three girls and one boy) standing outside on the doorsteps of a house.

File consists of 3 photographs featuring 2 views of building sheds and 1 view of building #46 power house at Kodak Heights.

Item consists of a photograph of a letter from Mary Pickford apologizing to her fellow Canadians that she will not be able to attend the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the first regular motion picture theatre in Canada, the Electric of Vancouver, which opened in 1902.

Item consists of 2 photographs featuring images of a man standing at a machine that reads "OSWEGO".

File consists of 17 black and white photographs featuring views of the Kodak Office in Montreal and it's employees.

Item consists of a black and white photograph featuring an image of two men holding photographs up to a window at the Kodak North Vancouver Processing Lab. Description reads: Dale Allen, left, and Larry Cadorin, Both Equipment Service Reps, Compare Densities of Negatives From Roller Transport Processors.

Item consists of a black and white photograph featuring an image of a woman talking on the phone with a man next to her at the Kodak North Vancouver Processing Lab. Description reads: Allison Cameron Gets a Call From a Kodak Equipment Service Rep While Ian Ferguson Waits to Discuss his Service Calls for the Day.

File includes commercial prints of children blowing bubbles, sitting on stairs, and flushing the toilet. Some have captions enclosed, such as one of a young girl observing a photograph that reads "Watching her own picture develop before her eyes will delight and fascinate your child and help make her an interested model as well."

Location - Canadian Competitiveness Press Release.

Item is a photograph of a procession outside at Kodak Heights, led by a horse-drawn buggy with signs that read "Vote for W.F. Dodd.

File contains images of people at work at the North Vanouver Processing Laboratory. Each image is labelled with employees' names. Featured are employees making repairs and working with customers.

Vol. 1 No. 2

Vol. 1 No. 2

File contains portraits and snapshots of Mr. Lou Christie.

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Item consists of 1 binder containing typescript photographic chemistry recipes and procedures, produced between 1939 and 1941, used in the production of Kodak products.

Consists of a demo reel for three voice actors. Demo reel contains segments of radio advertisement by the three individuals.

Consists of an audio recording of individuals singing O'Canada in English and French.

Item is a vinyl LP sound recording of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Frederick Fennell, performing twelve marches by John Philip Sousa. Recorded by Mercury Records, May 5, 1961. Manufactured and distributed in Canada by Quality Records Limited.

An Eastman Kodak Company promotional film on the process of making photographic paper and film stocks.

A commemorative DVD produced by Kodak Canada Ltd. for employees during the final days of the Kodak Heights operations. The DVD celebrates the employees of Kodak Heights in Toronto upon the closing of the plant in 2005. Four films on the disc include events and speeches from the June 30th, 2005 employee day, interviews and photographs of Kodak Heights employees.

2 videocassettes, one a long version for Kodak Use, the other a shorter version for newspaper use.

Item consists of an 1899 model of the No. 2 Bulls-Eye Kodak, which was manufactured from 1896-1913. It has a wooden interior, a spring controlled rotary disc shutter, and rotating disc stops controlled by pulling a lever on the top of the camera.

Item consists of a Kodak Bantam Rangefinder Camera. It makes 28x40mm exposures on Kodak's type No. 828 special 35mm paper backed roll film. It has a non-self-cocking Flash 300 shutter, 50mm f/3.9 Kodak Ektanon Lens, an optical viewfinder with a superimposed rangefinder, and is made of brown plastic, aluminum and other metal.

Item is a simple, red, Bakelite camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 620 film. The design includes a fixed focus, single aperture and one shutter speed. There are connection points for a flash unit, and a dimpled metal plate on the front, perhaps intended to mimic the apperance of a selenium light meter.

Item is a Gevaert Gevabox 6x9 box camera that took 6x9 images on 120 film. It was manufactured by L. Gevaert & Cie, a Belgian company that merged with Agfa AG and Bayer AG in 1964. It has a rectangular metal body with chrome edges, a single-speed + B shutter, two waist-level viewfinders for landscape and portrait formats, and an f8 lens. The two dials on the bottom-front of the camera allow the photographer to choose between one of the three apertures, and between M and B.

Item consists of a Six-16 Brownie box roll film camera that used size 616 film to make pictures sized 6.35 x 10.8 cm. It has a Diway lens with a close-up lens and a rotary shutter. The body is metal covered in leatherette, with a unique geometric art-deco front panel and two brilliant finders.

Item consists of a Brownie Target Six-16 box roll film camera that used film sized 616 to make pictures sized 6.35 x 10.8 cm. It was made in Canada, and has a simple meniscus lens and a rotary shutter. The body is a metal box covered in black leatherette with two brilliant finders, and a vertical art-deco line design on the front panel.

Item consists of a Kodak Brownie Super 27 viewfinder camera. The camera uses 127 roll film, has a Kodar f/8 lens with two stops, sunny, f/13.5 and cl'dy br't/flash f/8. A knob on the front of the lens allows for a choice of focus zones, close-up or beyond 6ft. The choice between two shutter speeds is made by opening the flash door, for a speed of 1/40, or closing it for a speed of 1/80. The body is moulded plastic featuring an optical direct vision finder and a flash gun for AG1 bulbs, concealed by a door beside the lens.

Item consists of a Brownie Target Six-16 box roll film camera that used film sized 616 to make pictures sized 6.35 x 10.8 cm. It was made in Canada, and has a simple meniscus lens and a rotary shutter. The body is a metal box covered in black leatherette with two brilliant finders, and a vertical art-deco line design on the front panel.

Item is a plastic box style camera for use with 127 roll film film. It is a simple, fixed focus, point and shoot camera with beige and brown body and plastic lens. Includes a hot shoe for AG-1 flash bulbs.

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".

Item is a box-type camera for 4x5 inch plates in double plateholders. The wood boy is covered with genuine black leather. It has two viewfinders, a rotating diaphragm with three apertures, a single meniscus lens, and two tripod sockets.

Item is a box camera that uses No. 101 rollfilm for twelve 3.5 x 3.5 inch exposures. This camera has the unique feature where the sides and back come off completely for loading. It has an achromatic lens and rotary shutter. It was marketed as the "Plico" in Europe.

Item is a Canadian version of the Hawk-Eye No. 2 Model C to commemorate Kodak's fiftieth anniversary of their first patent. It has a tan coloured leatherette covering, brass fittings, and a gold foil anniversary sticker. These were given to twelve year old kids for a Kodak promotion. Roughly 500,000 to 550,000 were manufactured. The camera uses 120 film for 2.25 x 3.25 inch exposures. It has one viewfinder and a meniscus lens with a rotary 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 consists of a box camera that uses 130 film for 2 7/8 x 4 7/8 inch exposures. The camera has a meniscus achromatic lens and rotary shutter. The camera has a leatherette covering in a grained pattern, a metal film carrier, two reflecting viewfinders, one tripod socket, and a trigger guard.

Item is a metal box camera with a tan-coloured reptile grained paper covering with a faint imprint of where a gold seal was. This camera was a special edition of the No. 2 Hawk-Eye Camera Model C meant to commemorate the 50th anniversary if the Eastman Kodak Co. In 1930, Kodak gave away approximately 550,000 to children 12 and under. The camera itself is used for 2.25" x 3.25" exposures on rollfilm with a single finder only.

Item consists of an all metal construction box camera, which takes films packs only, for 2.24" x 3.25" exposures.

Item consists of a box camera, for 5 x 7.5 cm exposures on 127 film. Model has two finder lenses placed horizontally across the top front side of the camera. The camera also has an extended hexagonal front plate around the lens with stops and closeup settings around it. There is a black enamel trim around the front end of the camera and a diamond shaped winding knob at the top right side.

Item consists of a plastic body box camera with a viewfinder. The camera includes a Voigtar 7.7/7.5cm lens and a compartment for the filter and extinction meter.

Item consists of a black box camera.

Item consists of a snapshot box camera for use with 120 film. The camera body is card with a red leatherette covering. The Brownie No. 2 Model F was manufactured between April 1929 and 1933, and was available in a variety of colours, including red.

Item is a brown bakelite box camera designed by Eastman Kodak employee Arthur H. Crapsey Jr. for use with 127 film (4x6 cm exposures). The camera features a fixed speed rotary shutter and plastic lens. Item does not include the flash unit. This model was made in Canada, at the Canadian Kodak plant in Toronto.

Series contains cameras designed to take wide-angle photographs (images that are least twice as wide as they are tall). Cameras of this nature began to be produced soon after photography was invented, as photographers have always wanted to capture large group portraits, landscape views and skylines. Panoramic photographs are achieved by stitching several exposures together to create one image or with purpose built cameras of several designed, including banquet (similar to standard cameras with wider aspect ratios, designed to take photographs of large groups indoors), short rotation (uses a curved film plane, swinging lens and split shutter that the lens rotates around), and full or long rotation (capable of producing 360 degree views by rotating the camera and film past the shutter).

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Item is one of the smallest cameras the Minox company produced. The original model, designed by Walter Zapp for use while hiking, was made in 1937 in Riga Latvia. Minox subminiatures were used as spy cameras by Nazi spies in World War II, as well as Soviet and American agents during the Cold War. The camera has its original leather case, and matching light meter . Synchronized for flash with a complan 15mm f3.5 lens.

Item is a molded walnut Bakelite camera with cast metal hardware and dual lenses. The front metal plate is cast with "CORONET, MIDGET, 16 mm FILM, MADE BY THE CORONET CAMERA CO. BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH PATENTS APPLIED FOR, DESIGN REGISTERED." The Moroccan leather case has the company logo and "MADE IN ENGLAND" in gold letterpress.

Item is a 35mm half frame automatic camera. Fixed focus, selenium meter coupled, clockwork film drive.

Item is a Pocket 110 subminiature still camera. Lanthar F5.6/24mm lens. Has programmed mechanical shutter with 4 weather symbols. Has wrist strap, and hot shoe attachment. Includes manual.

McKoewn, Pg. 971

Item is a simple camera plastic amateur snapshot camera for small (28 x 28 mm) exposures on 126 cartridge roll film. Item in original box.

Item is a subminiature camera from the Minolta series, with detachable dedicated electronic flash, carrying case, presentation case, strap and lens filters. Many accessories were available for this model, including a slide projector, enlarger, and laboratory equipment.

Item is a camera box set, complete with accessories. Orange and white cardboard box is printed with "AGFAMATIC 1a FULLY AUTOMATIC 35 mm CAMERA", a b&w illustration of the camera, and a contents list of "...camera, leather case, Tully flash with case, Agfachrome film, with processing." The camera is metal, plastic and glass. Around the lens is printed "AGFA COLOR - AGNAR 1 : 2.8 / 45" The leather case is printed with "MADE IN GERMANY" and comes with 2 straps. There is a paper box of Agfa ISU 135-36 Isopan Ultra film (exp. Feb 69), an Agfa metal film canister with exposed film inside, a box of 12 Sylvania flashbulbs, a leather and plastic-cased flash assembly, and 2 instruction pamphlets.

Item is a camera for use with 126 film. Includes a swing out AG1 flash reflector in body, automatic parallax correction. Three focusing symbols are visible in finder. In autoflash mode distance coupled to aperture. Prontor-matic V 30-125. Automatic shutter priority mode with selenium cell. With colour lanthar f.28-38mm.

Lens: Voigtlander Lanthar f.8/38mm
Shutter: prontor-matic

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 compact Instamatic camera for 13 x 17mm negatives with 110 film cartridges. Features a 25mm (normal setting) and 43mm (tele setting), f11 lumized lens and flash attachment. Shutter speeds of 1/125 for dayli1/45 for flash. Original sales price, $35.95.

Item is an automatic point and shoot camera with built in flash for use with 110 film. A slide on the top of the camera allows the lens to switch form "normal" (22mm) to "tele" (44mm) functionality.

Item consists of a 110 subminiature camera. The camera has an f4.0 wide-angle lens with three-position aperture settings. Fixed-focus. Includes a proprietary clip-on flash.

Item is an early model of the subminiature Micro 16 camera. It uses 16 mm film in special cassettes and a cartridge to cartridge fed. The camera uses a Achromatic doublet f8 lens and a single-speed shutter. The early model was produced from late 1946 to mid-1947 and uses an aperture selector level with a raised metal arrow with a checked background. The aperture selector switches between "Bright", "Dull", and "Color".

Item is an instamatic camera for use with 110 film. The Trimlite 48 has rangefinder-focusing, f/2.7, four-element lens.

Series contains cameras designed to fulfill specific, professional functions such as surveying, aerial photography, studio portraits and press work. These cameras are often the best items in the manufacturers line, offering more features and a sturdier construction than their amateur counterparts.

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Item is a monorail view camera that was designed based on the Kodak Master View Camera, the rights of which were sold to the Calumet Manufacturing Company in 1955. Currently has a Linhof lens.

Item is a stereo camera produced in the early 1950's when the format became widely popular with amateur photographers. The camera uses 35mm film, has 2 anastigmat lenses, 3.5/35mm with a shutter speed of 1-1/150. The camera has a flash synch on the top.

Item is a four-lens, three-dimensional camera, originally developed by the Nimslo company, the Nishika copies were created after Nimslo was taken over by Nishika in 1989. The camera has a plastic body and 4 identical lenses, a fixed 1/60th shutter that exposes the four square images in synch. When exposed, the 35mm film had to be sent to specialty labs equipped for autostereo (lenticular) colour printing, which produced a true stereo image without the use of glasses. This process was also developed by Nims and Lo, of the original company.

Item is a Ricohmatic 225 in case. It is a 6x6 twin lens reflex camera made in Japan by Ricoh from 1959 to 1962. It is a synthesis of all the best technologies of the time. Used no. 120 film, but an optional kit was available to allow for the use of 135 films. Features an uncoupled selenium light meter, EVS numbering system with two ranges, Ricoh Viewer f 3.2/80mm lens/viewer, Seikosha SLV shutter with speeds 1-1/500 sec + B, aperture of 1/3.5 to 1/22, manual focusing, and crank film advance.

Item consists of a twin-lens reflex camera for use with 6x6cm roll film. The camera includes a 75mm f3.5 Carl Zeiss Planar lens, selenium light meter, and waist level viewfinder with removable hood. The exposure meter is located on the focusing knob, and is used by adjusting the f-stop and shutter speed until the two needles line up.

Series contains cameras designed for use with standard 35mm (135 format) film. This became the most popular film and camera format, both among professionals and amateurs. Sturdy and multi-functional, with interchangeable lenses, these cameras found their way into civil wars, riots, and natural disasters around the necks of daring photojournalists as well as in homes and on vacation with advanced amateurs and photo-enthusiasts. Once exposed, the film was wound conveniently back into light-tight metal canisters that would protect the film until it could be developed.

For 35mm cameras marketed specifically to amateur photographers, see items in the Point-and-Shoot series.

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