[rollei_list] Super Kodak Six-20
- From: Marc James Small <msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:13:54 -0400
At 08:21 AM 9/8/05 -0700, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>The Bantam Special and it's Ektar came out in 1936. The
>Kodak Ektra came out in 1941, but was shown at the NY
>Worlds Fair in 1940. When my father picked up the demo
>camera at the Kodak Pavilion, he quickly put it down with
>a muted "ach!". It was a left handed camera, designed by
>a southpaw. Vastly over designed, but with terrible ergonomics.
>He bought the Super Kodak Six-20, instead.
This camera was also designed by Joseph Mihalyi and was the first
production camera with a coupled lightmeter allowing automatic expsure
setting. It is now quite rare and is quite sought after by collectors. It
is ugly as hell, however.
Marc
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