Magazine Cine-Kodak Eight Model 90

Format

8mm

Is Film

Yes

Metering

none

Research

Doug Kerr, The film and cameras that made home movies possible (http://dougkerr.net/Pumpkin/articles/Kodak Cine-Kodak.pdf); Lens mounts of Kodak Cine-Kodak movie cameras (http://dougkerr.net/Pumpkin/articles/Kodak Movie Lens Mounts.pdf); The Kodak Cine-Kodak Special (http://dougkerr.net/Pumpkin/articles/Kodak Cine-Kodak Special.pdf).

Confidence

high

Spec Notes

25 ft double-8 magazine, exposed in two passes. Enclosed finder with a small wheel to change field of view. Standard lens 19mm f/1.9. KNOWN TYPO IN THE SOURCE, DO NOT PROPAGATE: Kerr's price paragraph opens "In January, 1936, when it was introduced ... equipped with a 25 mm f/1.9 lens" - both wrong, and both copy-paste slips from the Magazine Cine-Kodak paragraph. Correct values are June 1940 and 19mm f/1.9. SERIAL NUMBERS: these bodies DO carry serials (Kerr's own Special is number 330; a Science Museum Group Royal Magazine is 65678) but NO Cine-Kodak serial-to-year scheme is published anywhere - checked across all four Kerr monographs, Wikipedia, Pacific Rim Camera's Cine reference library and two museum catalogues. Date these bodies by model production window only.