Six-20 Kodak Junior
early version with simpler folding mechanics and unnamed shutter image by Cameron Shaw (Image rights) |
The Six-20 'Kodak' Junior is a folding camera for 620 film rolls. It was made from 1933-1940 and has just a brilliant finder, like other contemporary budget cameras. The later improved version with smoother folding mechanism got an octogonal front-plate instead of the original round one.
The cameras have a simple shutter. Originally unnamed, finally it was badged No.0 Kodon or Kodon shutter or simply Kodon, and it offers speeds 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 sec. plus B and T mode. The budget version has an f11 lens, a Twindar or a Doublet, which is focusable to three distance ranges: 5-8 ft, 8-15ft, and beyond 15ft. The advanced version has an f6.3 or f7.7 Kodak Anastigmat, focusable by means of a complete distance scale from 1.5 to 30 metres (or 5 ft to 100 ft).
with Kodak f7.7 Anastigmat image by Dave (Image rights) |
advanced British version with fast lens, with additional collapsible viewfinder image by camera.etcetera (Image rights) |
Late British variant with fast lens image by camera.etcetera (Image rights) |
improved version with fast lens image by camera.etcetera (Image rights) |
with simple (unnamed) f11 lens image by Michael Long (Image rights) |