Kodak Tourist Camera

The 1948 51 tourist was the last in a 50 year line of folding medium format cameras from kodak. It looks like a packard clipper to me which gives it some style but it s big and very heavy which negates a lot of the reason people wanted folding cameras to begin with.

Kodak Tourist Ii Camera With Kodet Lens Works Well Collectible Etsy

Actually i don t quite understand what this camera is about.

Kodak tourist camera. It was available with a wide variety of lens and shutter combinations with the top of the line model featuring an excellent 4 element kodak anastar lens and synchro rapid 800 shutter. The kodak tourist was a rather well featured 6 9 folding camera that offered a lot of bang for the buck when first released. They wanted something compact.

The standard bracket is attached to the tripod socket on the base ofthe kodak tourist camera flashing of the lamp is controlled by the synchro feature of the shutter. The tourists use 620 films making 8 2 3 exposures. Actually it was my girlfriend kate s thrift store find.

Kodak tourist camera 620 film camera with fitted case aa20 ca4041 vintage from t. Production was discontinued in july of 1958. S 8 p u o q r n s x l o r e 7 d h t d 4.

Vintage kodak tourist ii folding camera with kodet lens offers welcomed locbin4. Cock and release the shutter in the normal way. We d stopped at a charity shop on the other side of town where i found an excellent condition complete polaroid 350 outfit and decided to peek at the cheap camera bin on the lookout for color optical lens cameras or the.

The kodak tourists were the last in a long line of american made folding roll film cameras from eastman kodak the tourist ii introduced in may of 1951 features a redesigned top cover and a new viewfinder which contains frame lines for the optional 828 roll film adapter. Another one of kodak s 620 wonders from the mid century making it another perfectly good filmless classic. The lens is a kodak angston 105mm f 4 5 lens in a flash kodamatic shutter that goes from 1 10s to 1 200s and features a bulb and timer mode.

It s a great camera that s not too large considering the size of the film but it does bring with it some difficulties that other medium format cameras simply do not have. Top rated seller top rated seller. 25 lamps fuller exposures may be ob tained by.

It was replaced by the tourist ii series which was introduced in may of 1951 and features a redesigned top cover and a new viewfinder. Amateurs who wanted more from photography than their box brownies could deliver turned to medium format folding cameras until 35mm photography really took off in the 1950s. The kodak tourist ii is one of my many thrift store finds.

The tourist ii line also dropped the f 8 8 model and added two very high end models with synchro. The kodak tourists were the last in a long line of american made folding roll film cameras from eastman kodak the original tourist series was introduced in 1948. At shutter speeds slower than 1 100 second with the no.

Vintage Kodak Tourist Camera Case With Kodet Lens Kodon Shutter Near Mint Ebay