Kodak Vest Pocket
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| Vest Pocket Kodak, Model B |
The Vest Pocket Kodak was a bestselling folding camera, made and sold 1.8 million times by Eastman Kodak Co. Ltd., Rochester, from 1912-26. It had a 1:6.8/72mm single meniscus lens.
The Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak was a version advertised as "Soldier's camera" during WWI. The camera back had an area through which notes couls be written onto the film roll's paper backside, a feature invented by Henry J. Gaisman.
The Vest Pocket Kodak Model B was a the successing camera model, prepared to make 4.5×6cm exposures on 127 film rolls. An "Autographic" area in the camera back allowed to write notes on the films paper backside. Its lens was a Doublet in a Rotary shutter.
