Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Junior Six-16 Series III
Format
616
System
Kodak Junior
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Kodex No. 1 or Diomatic No. 1
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 1938–1939https://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. See gear_items.kodak-junior-six-16-series-iii spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
616
System
Kodak Junior
Shutter
Kodex No. 1 or Diomatic No. 1
Metering
none
Spec Notes
Kept as its own row where the Series II was folded, and the reason is that Kodak sold the two SIDE BY SIDE: the Oct-1938 catalogue lists the Series II at $10.25 and $12.75 and the Series III at $15.50, $18.00 and $29.50 on the same pages, and AA-13's date ranges overlap. Two products on sale at once cannot be one row. Their lens sets are disjoint - the Series III is Kodak Anastigmat throughout where the Series II is a single lens and a Bimat - and so are their shutter sets, plus streamlined bed supports. Three dimensions. Dealer object records transcribe '128/6.3 KODAK ANASTIGMAT IN KODEX NO. 1' on three separate examples. AA-13 MIRROR DISCREPANCY, NORMALISED: BOTH scans print 'KODAK Junior or Six-16 Series III Camera'. The stray 'or' is absent from the Six-20 twin's line and is not grammatical as a product name; it is recorded here and stripped from the name, in the same family as this pamphlet's known '1059'-for-1959 and 'lA'-for-'1A' defects. LENS AND SHUTTER ARE AN OPTION LADDER, NOT SEPARATE MODELS. Kodak's catalogues print one heading and one description per camera with a price table of lens-and-shutter combinations underneath, and AA-13 carries one row per camera rather than one per grade. 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
Kodak Anastigmat f/8.8, f/6.3 (128mm) or f/4.5
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1938
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