Discontinued
Kfilm camera
No. 3A Kodak Series II
Format
122
System
Kodak No. 3A Series
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Diodak No. 2a, 1/10 1/25 1/50 1/100 plus T and B
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 1936–1941 · medium confidencehttps://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-no-3a-kodak-series-ii spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
122
System
Kodak No. 3A Series
Shutter
Diodak No. 2a, 1/10 1/25 1/50 1/100 plus T and B
Metering
none
Spec Notes
*** THIS ROW AND THE SERIES III BELOW WERE MISSED BY THE RESEARCH BRIEF AND FOUND BY THE COMPLETENESS PASS. *** The brief built its scope from a 616/620 reading of AA-13 and never asked what else the pamphlet lists between 1932 and 1958. AA-13 prints 'No. 3A KODAK Series II Camera 1936 1941 122 75.00', verbatim and identical in both surviving scans - a 122-film folding camera on the market five years, entirely absent from the plan. THE LESSON IS THE FIND: a completeness sweep must enumerate the SOURCE, not filter it by the shape of the slice you already believe in. Hardware here is a museum record rather than a Kodak document: Science Museum Group object 1990-5036/970, place of manufacture ROCHESTER, typed 'Folding bellows camera', 255 x 120 x 220 mm deployed, 'Lever focusing - 6ft. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder fitted.' The dimensions are that museum's measurement of one object and are NOT recorded as a specification. NOT THE SAME CAMERA as the No. 3A Pocket Kodak (1927-33, 122) or any No. 3A Autographic - AA-13 prints all of them as separate lines with different dates. A DATE-ADJACENT CONFLICT, reported not resolved: AA-13's $75.00 is unmatched by any catalogue seen, and a September 1940 Kodak catalogue prices the camera at $42.50 with only the Anastigmat f/6.3 and Diomatic, then the June 1941 catalogue lists it with no price at all. NO PRICE IS RECORDED ON THIS ROW. AA-13's 'ORIGINAL LIST PRICE' column is a TOP-OF-LADDER figure rather than a list price - established in slice 7 and confirmed again here, where AA-13 gives the Kodak Junior Six-16 $12.00, which is the CHEAPEST rung of the 1935-36 ladder, not the dearest. The column cannot be ingested as a price field. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION. Kodak's AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. No Kodak-published production date exists for any camera in this slice. 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 170mm f/6.3
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
3 1/4 x 5 1/2 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1936
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