Kodak Pony 135 Model C

Format

135, 24x36 mm

System

Kodak Pony

Shutter

Kodak Flash 300, cocking type, 1/25 1/50 1/100 1/300 + B

Metering

none

Spec Notes

The real redesign in the Pony line, and three dimensions from the Model B: lens (51mm f/4.5 to 44mm f/3.5), shutter (Flash 200 to Flash 300) and body (collapsible tube to rigid mount). Kodak's own November 1955 manual reads 'Kodak Anaston - 44mm, f/3.5, Lumenized' and 'Kodak Flash 300 - cocking type'. Black-to-brown colour is not a dimension. CAVEAT ON THE SOURCE: that scan's OCR is demonstrably unreliable - it renders 'Anaston' variously as 'Anoston' and 'Anarlon' and mangles a model letter - so these values should be re-read from the page images before any of them is treated as settled. Weight and dimensions NOT SOURCED. DATING: NONE. The CAMEROSITY lens prefix is attested only on Ektar, Anastigmat Special and Anastar lenses. No prefixed EKTANAR or ANASTON serial could be found in Kodak literature, museum records, dealer inventory or auction text, and no source states whether those tiers are inside or outside the scheme - so this camera is NOT datable from its lens. The four-letter body date code that cheap Kodaks carry is not sourced for this model either. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION. Kodak's own AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO', and no Kodak-published production date exists for any camera in this slice - every third-party 'production years' figure checked is a restatement of AA-13.

Fitted Lens

Kodak Anaston 44mm f/3.5, Lumenized, three elements in three groups

Rangefinder

No

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1955