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'''“The Modern Camera for the Modern Girl”'''<REF name="Coe">Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5) p.167</REF>
 
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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.
 
 
 
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'''''“The Modern Camera for the Modern Girl”''''' <REF name="Coe">Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; <nowiki>ISBN 0-906447-44-5</nowiki>) p.167</REF>
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The '''Vanity [[Kodak]]''' is a [[Vest Pocket Kodak]] Series III camera that has grained leather covering with gold lines and was made from 1928 to 1933.
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It came in five colors:
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* Bluebird (blue)
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* Cockatoo (green)
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* Sea Gull (grey)
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* Redbreast (red)
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* Jenny Wren (brown).
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The paint and bellows are in matching color and it came with a silk-lined matching case. The Kodak Anastigmat f6.3 83mm lens is in a Diomatic 3-speed shutter. It has the [[Autographic]] back with a stylus on the front lens mount. Film size 127.
  
  
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==Links==
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*[https://youtu.be/pWkQ_RVomYo?si=jZOckXAltYY1Bx4T Vanity Kodak video presentation] by YouTuber [https://www.youtube.com/@matthewdeacon1970 matthew deacon]
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Latest revision as of 05:26, 25 January 2024

“The Modern Camera for the Modern Girl” [1]

The Vanity Kodak is 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)
  • Jenny Wren (brown).

The paint and bellows are in matching color and it came with a silk-lined matching case. The Kodak Anastigmat f6.3 83mm lens is in a Diomatic 3-speed shutter. It has the Autographic back with a stylus on the front lens mount. Film size 127.


Notes

  1. Brian Coe, Kodak Cameras, the First Hundred Years (Hove, UK: Hove Foto Books, 1988; ISBN 0-906447-44-5) p.167

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