Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Tourist
Format
620
System
Kodak Tourist
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Flash Kodon, Flash Diomatic, Flash Kodamatic or Kodak Synchro-Rapid 800 (1 to 1/800)
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 1948–1958https://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 Tourist II (1951-1958). See gear_items.kodak-tourist spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
620
System
Kodak Tourist
Shutter
Flash Kodon, Flash Diomatic, Flash Kodamatic or Kodak Synchro-Rapid 800 (1 to 1/800)
Metering
none
Spec Notes
*** THE TOURIST II IS FOLDED IN AS A GENERATION. *** The research brief recommended splitting on three differences - top cover, viewfinder and a dropped ladder rung. Under this catalogue's rules VIEWFINDER TYPE IS NOT A DIMENSION and a dropped rung is an option, and the adversarial pass showed the first two are the same fact anyway: the Scopesight IS the redesigned top cover, which Kodak redesigned in order to fit it. That leaves one dimension, and one dimension folds. The 1952 catalogue's 'jiggle-proof shutter release' is NOT a Tourist II feature: Kodak's own Tourist instruction book already describes 'the ingenious shutter exposure release built into the bed', and the word 'jiggle' appears nowhere in it. Film transport is manual on both; the removable three-way back is on both; focusing is front-element on both. *** THE EKTAR ATTRIBUTION IS REFUTED. *** Both cameras top out at a Kodak ANASTAR 101mm f/4.5 in a Synchro-Rapid 800, not an Ektar: Kodak's own 1952 catalogue names model 74 'Anastar f/4.5 Lens' and no Ektar model appears, and no source at any tier puts an Ektar on either camera. The confusion is with the 101mm f/4.5 Ektar sold on Graphic lensboards. 828 film is an ACCESSORY, not a model: an optional adapter gives 28x40mm frames. A REVIEWER'S MEASUREMENTS OF HIS OWN TWO CAMERAS - 810 g with the Anaston, 834 g with the Anastar - ARE NOT RECORDED AS A WEIGHT, because a measurement is not a published spec and because it differs by lens. 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. DATING: PARTIAL, AND ONLY THROUGH THE LENS. From about 1940 a Kodak Ektar, Anastigmat Special or Anastar carries the CAMEROSITY two-letter year prefix on its serial (C=1 A=2 M=3 E=4 R=5 O=6 S=7 I=8 T=9 Y=0). This camera was sold with such a lens inside that window, so an example wearing one can be dated FROM THE LENS - which dates the LENS, not the body, and lenses were swapped in service. Examples on the cheaper rungs carry no code at all. The body has no serial scheme.
Fitted Lens
Kodet 86mm f/12.5, Kodak Anaston 100mm f/8.8, 100mm f/6.3, 105mm f/6.3 or 105mm f/4.5, or Kodak Anastar 101mm f/4.5
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1948
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