Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Junior Six-20
Format
620
System
Kodak Junior
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Kodon or Kodex
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 1935–1940https://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: Kodak Junior Six-20 Series II (1937-1940). See gear_items.kodak-junior-six-20 spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
620
System
Kodak Junior
Shutter
Kodon or Kodex
Metering
none
Spec Notes
The Series II is folded in on the same evidence as the Six-16 - see that row. AA-13 prints this line with a lower-case 'camera' in the Pacific Rim scan and a capital in the brownie-camera scan; normalised. A SHUTTER NAME IS DELIBERATELY OMITTED: relay passes returned 'Kodo' for the cheapest Six-20 rung. 'Kodal' is independently attested as a real Kodak shutter in the 1932-33 catalogue; 'Kodo' is attested nowhere and is most likely a truncation of it. A name that appears in one OCR pass and no Kodak document is not a name. 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. NAMESAKE HAZARD: KODAK CANADA, KODAK AG AND KODAK LTD BUILT SAME-NAMED CAMERAS. Pacific Rim object records file a Kodak Canada Senior Six-20, a Senior Six-16, a Junior Six-16 and a Six-20 Kodak; Kodak AG built a Junior Six-16 and a Junior 620 at the Nagel works in Stuttgart; Kodak Ltd built a Six-20 Kodak Junior and a Six-16 Junior at Harrow. THIS ROW IS THE ROCHESTER CAMERA. The European examples are recognisable by an f/7.7 Kodak Anastigmat, which no US rung used, and by a rounded shutter faceplate where the American cameras are octagonal. 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 Doublet, single lens, Kodak Bimat or Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3 (100mm)
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1935
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