Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Senior Six-16
Format
616
System
Kodak Senior
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Kodex No. 1, Diomatic No. 2 or Kodamatic
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 1937–1939https://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-senior-six-16 spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
616
System
Kodak Senior
Shutter
Kodex No. 1, Diomatic No. 2 or Kodamatic
Metering
none
Spec Notes
Two dimensions above the Junior Series III: the Kodamatic shutter, which the Junior line never carried, and a body with a shutter release ON THE BODY and an optical direct-view eye-level finder - Kodak's Jul-1937 catalogue calls it a 'new shutter release located on the camera body'. The ladder was cut hard within a year: three rungs at $33.50 / $22.00 / $17.50 in Jul-1937, five at $32.00 / $24.50 / $21.00 / $19.50 / $16.50 by Oct-1938, the new bottom rung being an f/7.7. Objects engraved '128/6.3 KODAK ANASTIGMAT IN NO. 1 KODEX', '128/7.7 ...' and '130/6.3 KODAK ANASTIGMAT IN NO. 2 DIOMATIC'. 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 Bimat, or Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7, f/6.3 (128 or 130mm) or f/4.5
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1937
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