Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Bantam f/8
Format
828, 28x40 mm
System
Kodak Bantam
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
single speed, no speed control
Metering
none
Research
Kodak AA-13; Kodak Bantam Special sales brochure form 7131 (PRC 01647); Kodak 1937 gift-line catalogue form 10.37 (PRC 03642); Kodak 1941 product catalogue (PRC 00167); Kodak Bantam, Bantam Special and Flash Bantam instruction books (cameramanuals.org); Pacific Rim dealer inventory transcribing engraved lens names.
Produced 1938–1942 · medium confidencehttps://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/01541/01541.pdfMARKET DATES from Kodak Customer Service Pamphlet AA-13, whose columns are headed 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO' - NOT production dates, and no Kodak-published production date exists for this camera. See gear_items.kodak-bantam-f8 spec_notes for the sourcing and any conflict.
Category: Film Camera
Format
828, 28x40 mm
System
Kodak Bantam
Shutter
single speed, no speed control
Metering
none
Spec Notes
THE ODD ONE IN THE FAMILY, and the trap is in the lens name: KODALINEAR IS NOT A MODEL, it is this camera's lens, engraved 'KODALINEAR' and transcribed as such on five separate Pacific Rim items. The body is not a folder at all - rigid bakelite with a rectangular pull-out lens tube, no struts and no bellows - so it differs from every other Bantam on lens, shutter and body. Kodak's cheapest Bantam at $4.75. The Kodalinear's optical construction is NOT SOURCED anywhere. DATING: NONE. The CAMEROSITY lens prefix is attested only on Ektar, Anastigmat Special and Anastar lenses. No prefixed EKTANAR or ANASTON serial could be found in Kodak literature, museum records, dealer inventory or auction text, and no source states whether those tiers are inside or outside the scheme - so this camera is NOT datable from its lens. The four-letter body date code that cheap Kodaks carry is not sourced for this model either. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION. Kodak's own AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO', and no Kodak-published production date exists for any camera in this slice - every third-party 'production years' figure checked is a restatement of AA-13.
Fitted Lens
Kodalinear 40mm f/8
Rangefinder
No
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1938
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