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* Viewfinder: Brilliant finder, adjustable for landscape or portrait | * Viewfinder: Brilliant finder, adjustable for landscape or portrait | ||
From 1929-1932 it was available in the US in four colors: blue, grey, green and brown.<REF name="Coe">{{Coe Kodak}} p.149.</REF> | From 1929-1932 it was available in the US in four colors: blue, grey, green and brown.<REF name="Coe">{{Coe Kodak}} p.149.</REF> | ||
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| + | There is a small thumb screw at the side of the bellows which permits a centimeter or two of rise, to control vertical perspective. Rarely, some copies are found with a coupled rangefinder, which is visible through the shutter-mounted viewfinder via a couple of angled prisms at either side of the front of the folding bed; as the lens is focused by sliding the standard forward and back, the viewfinder and prisms slide with it and pass over a small rectangular prism or lens that is fixed immovably to the folding bed, and causes the position of the double-image to vary. | ||
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| Autographic version with decorated stylus image by Steve Harwood (Image rights) |
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| Kodak 1A with deco style leg image by Morinaka. (Image rights) |
The No. 1A Pocket Kodak is a folding camera for 2½×4¼" size exposures on type 116 film rolls. It was available in an "Autographic" version. It was manufactured from 1926 to 1932.
- Lens: Kodak Anastigmat 127mm f/6.3
- Shutter speeds: Bulb, Time, 1/25th and 1/50th
- Apertures: f/6.3 to f/45, infinity adjustable
- Viewfinder: Brilliant finder, adjustable for landscape or portrait
From 1929-1932 it was available in the US in four colors: blue, grey, green and brown.[1]
There is a small thumb screw at the side of the bellows which permits a centimeter or two of rise, to control vertical perspective. Rarely, some copies are found with a coupled rangefinder, which is visible through the shutter-mounted viewfinder via a couple of angled prisms at either side of the front of the folding bed; as the lens is focused by sliding the standard forward and back, the viewfinder and prisms slide with it and pass over a small rectangular prism or lens that is fixed immovably to the folding bed, and causes the position of the double-image to vary.
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| Grey 1A with matching case image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
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Notes
- ↑ Coe, Brian: Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years; Hove Foto Books, Hove, UK. 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5, or 2nd edition, 2003; ISBN 1874707375. p.149.
