Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Jiffy Kodak Six-16
Format
616
System
Kodak Jiffy
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
built-in, instantaneous and time actions, finger release
Metering
none
Research
Kodak AA-13 'History of KODAK Cameras' (model-name strings, market dates, film sizes), transcribed VERBATIM from BOTH surviving scans - pacificrimcamera.com/rl/01541 and brownie-camera.com/manuals/aa13.pdf - across nine differently worded passes, publishing only what was stable. Kodak US product catalogues 1932-33 (rl/00153), 1933-34 (00155), 1935-36 (00157), Jul-1937 (00160), Oct-1938 (00163), Oct-1939 (00165), 1940 (00166), Spring/Summer 1952 (01856), Winter 1956 (02403). Kodak instruction books (cameramanuals.org) and the Pacific Rim instruction-book index ax41, whose titles name factory lens-and-shutter pairings verbatim. Science Museum Group and George Eastman Museum object records. Pacific Rim dealer object records transcribing engraved lens and shutter names. historiccamera, camerapedia (Fandom mirror; camera-wiki.org is blocked by robots.txt), Blue Moon Camera, jollinger, mikeeckman, earlyphotography.
Produced 1933–1942https://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/01541/01541.pdfMARKET DATES, not production - AA-13 is headed 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. No price is recorded: AA-13's price column is not a list price. SPAN INCLUDES A FOLDED GENERATION: Jiffy Kodak Six-16 Series II (1937-1942). See gear_items.kodak-jiffy-six-16 spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
616
System
Kodak Jiffy
Shutter
built-in, instantaneous and time actions, finger release
Metering
none
Spec Notes
*** THE SERIES II IS FOLDED INTO THIS ROW AS A GENERATION, AND THAT IS THE CONTESTED CALL OF THIS SLICE. *** AA-13 gives 'JIFFY KODAK Six-16 Series II Camera' its own line, its own price and its own dates, and the research brief planned it as its own row. The adversarial pass put Kodak's own catalogue spec blocks side by side and found them identical in every hardware field - the only positively documented difference is the front-plate covering, which is FINISH and is explicitly not a dimension. A verification pass then found one real change the adversary had missed, the swinging foot support dropping out of the 1938 and 1939 spec blocks; a body detail is still one dimension, and one dimension folds. The widely cited historiccamera datasheet for the Series II is NOT independent evidence: it is the datasheet for the 1933 camera with the name and dates changed, carrying the same prices, and those prices are wrong for both. Styled by Walter Dorwin Teague. AA-13 MIRROR DISCREPANCY: the Pacific Rim scan renders this line 'Series IT'; the brownie-camera scan reads 'Series II'. Normalised to II. DATING: NONE EXISTS FOR THIS CAMERA. No Kodak serial-to-year table was ever published for any Rochester body, and the CAMEROSITY lens code runs only from about 1940 and only on Ektar, Anastigmat Special and Anastar lenses - none of which this camera was sold with in a year the code was in use.
Fitted Lens
Twindar, two-position (near / far) focusing mount
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1933
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