Baby Hawkeye (Kodak)

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The Baby Hawkeye is a box camera for 4x6.5 cm pictures on 127 film, made by Kodak in London from about 1936.[1] It has a single speed 'flip-flop' shutter and fixed aperture single element lens. It has a pull-out wire frame viewfinder, with only a front frame; there is no eyepiece. The camera pictured is the de-luxe version, with strap lugs. It was a promotional camera and usually given away.

Kodak made a very similar camera, the Hawkeye Ace (and Hawkeye Ace Deluxe), from about 1938. These differ only in having a leatherette-covered front instead of the Baby's painted-metal front.


Notes

  1. McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p497.