Discontinued
Kfilm camera
Kodak Vigilant Junior Six-20
Format
620
System
Kodak Vigilant
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Dak or Dakon, 1/25 and 1/50 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 1940–1948https://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-vigilant-junior-six-20 spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
620
System
Kodak Vigilant
Shutter
Dak or Dakon, 1/25 and 1/50 plus T and B
Metering
none
Spec Notes
The 620 Vigilant Junior. Same two-rung ladder; same unsourced focal length - see the Six-16 row. 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: 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
Kodet (fixed focus) or Kodak Bimat (three-zone focusing)
Rangefinder
No
Negative Size
2 1/4 x 3 1/4 in
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1940
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