Vanity Kodak
“The Modern Camera for the Modern Girl”[1]
The Vanity Kodak was a Vest Pocket Kodak Series III camera that has grained leather covering with gold lines and was made from 1928 to 1933. It came in five colors: Bluebird (blue), Cockatoo (green), Sea Gull (grey), Redbreast (red) and Jenny Wren (brown). The paint and bellows were in matching color and it came with a silk-lined matching case. The Kodak Anastigmat f6.3 83mm lens was in a Diomatic 3-speed shutter. It has the Autographic back with a stylus on the front lens mount. Film size 127.
Redbreast and Sea Gull Vanity Kodaks image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5) p.167