The first model was introduced in 1915, but this camera dates from 1917 and features a hinged flap on the rear of the camera in which the photographer could ‘write’ various details with a metal stylus at the time of exposure. Thus light filtering through the backing paper would expose the sensitive film. An early form of data back camera!

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SPECIFICATIONS
Type: Folding rollfilm
Film size: 120
Introduced: September 1915
Discontinued: 1926
Picture size: 2.25 x 3.25in
Manufactured: USA
Lens: Achromatic or Rapid rectininear
Shutter: Ball bearing or Kodex
Numbers made: 540,000 before 1921

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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kodak Cameras; The First Hundred Years
by Brian Coe 0 906447 44 5