Showing 154 results

Archival description
Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection Eastman Kodak Company Item
Print preview View:

Management letter: Berkey Photo Litigation defense

Item is a summary of the defense used by Eastman Kodak in the Berkey Photo vs. Eastman Kodak Company case. The case was the result of a lawsuit by Berkey Photo, a photo processing and equipment manufacturing company. The suit claimed that Kodak had a monopoly and violated the Sherman Antitrust Act. Berkey won damages of $112.8 million but this decision was reversed on appeal in 1979.

Eastman Kodak Company

Management letter: downsizing

Item is a memo intended for Canadian and U.S. managers in the Kodak Imaging sector regarding announced and upcoming downsizing of the company in Canada and the United States. Instructions on the letter note to share it with all staff.

Kodak Canada Ltd. Engineering

Kodak through its customers' eyes

Item is a booklet published by the Eastman Kodak Corporate Information Department detailing presentations given by company management at the Marketing Education Centre in October 1972. The presentations outline different market divisions of the company, including: Radiography, Potion Picture and Education, Business Systems, Consumer, Professional Commercial and Industrial, and Research and Developement

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Bullet

Item is a small hand held camera with black plastic and metal casing. Winding knob on bottom left and metal latch for attaching a flash on top (no flash included). Around lens opening, "BULLET CAMERA" is printed. Designed in art deco style.

Eastman Kodak Company

Take a Kodak with you

This item is a poster of an advertisement for a Folding Pocket Kodak Camera featuring a fashionably dressed woman, which would later become known as the Kodak Girl. The blue-and-white striped dress became her signature apparel, and she always had a Kodak camera in hand.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Signet 50 with flash attachment

Item is a viewfinder camera with black bakelite body, metal fittings and large attached flash. It is the fourth model in the Kodak Signet line, featuring a selenium photocell exposure meter. Featuring an Ektanar lens with thorium oxide, the camera is slightly radioactive.

Eastman Kodak Company

Man and women on beach with Kodak camera

Item consists of a poster featuring an image of a man taking a photograph of two women on a beach in 1923, using an electric-eye instamatic camera. Beneath the image reads: In 1923, you had to fiddle around and set exposure for sun or shade. / Now any electric-eye KODAK INSTAMATIC Camera measures the / light and sets the exposure for you automatically -- for black-and-white / and color pictures, and color slides.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Film - the dependable film in the yellow box

Item consists of a portrait format, white, board poster, featuring a black and white image of two boxes of Kodak Film, with "Kodak Film - the dependable film in the yellow box / The film that gives the same results from roll to roll, so that you can rely on it. / Kodak Film excels on every count - speed, latitude, uniformity - and each is of picture-making importance. / Use Kodak Film, the dependable film in the yellow box. / Canadian Kodak Co., Limited, Toronto" printed beneath.

Kodak Canada Inc.

No. 1 Kodak Enlarging Camera

Item is a camera for making enlargements up to 16.5 x 21.6 cm (6.5 x 8.5 inches), using daylight. The product was marketed to amateur photographers as there was no need for a darkroom setup to produce the images. The No. 1 Enlarging Camera sold for $15.00 in 1904.

Kodak Canada Inc.

A 100-Year Start on Tomorrow coasters

Item consists of three commemorative tin coasters celebrating Kodak's centennial in 1980. On the top rim of each plate it says "A 100-year start on tomorrow." One plate has an image from a 1910 Eastman Kodak Company print ad; another has an image of the 1980 Kodak Summer Girl; and the last has an image of the first Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company from 1880.

Voyez ce que le Film Kodacolor peut faire pour vos instantaines!

Item consists of a portrait board poster featuring a large colour image of a photograph of a landscape of birch trees and a lake, which is continued with a black and white contour drawing. Beside the image reads "Voyez ce que le Film Kodacolor peut faire pour vos instantanes!", beneath the image is another image of a yellow box of Kodacolor film, and text that reads "Avec le Film Kodacolor vous pouvez prendre de jois instantanes en couleurs celui-ci avec votre camera".

Kodak Canada Inc.

Look what Kodacolor Film can do for your snapshots!

Item consists of a portrait board poster featuring a large colour image of a photograph of a landscape of birch trees and a lake, which is continued with a black and white contour drawing. Beside the image reads "Look at what Kodacolor Film can do for your snapshots!", beneath the image is another image of a yellow box of Kodacolor film beside a Brownie Hawkeye camera, and text that reads "With Kodacolor Film you can take beautiful color snapshots like this with your camera".

Kodak Canada Inc.

All out-doors invites your Kodak

Item consists of a portrait format board poster advertisement that reads "All out-doors invites your Kodak / Autographic Kodaks $6.70 up, at your dealer's / Canadian Kodak Co., Limited / Toronto". Above the text is a large image of a woman on the beach holding a parasol and an Autographic Kodak camera.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak gifts say open me first!

Item consists of a portrait format poster that reads "Kodak Gifts Say / Open me first! / When you open your Kodak camera outfit first, you can save all the fun of Christmas-and the years to come-in pictures" Beneath the text are images, prices, and brief descriptions of the Brownie Starflash Outfit camera, the Brownie Hawkeye Flash Outfit camera, the Kodak Pony IV Camera Outfit, and the Brownie Movie Camera Kit.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Works all week. Plays on the weekend

Item consists of a poster board advertising the Kodak Trimlite Instamatic 48 camera. The main slogan on the poster reads "Works all week. Plays on the weekend." and in smaller font is a more detailed description of the features of the camera, including Flip Flash. The poster features an image of the camera resting upon blueprints and an architectural photograph, overlapped by a photograph of a family on a sail boat.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Tourist Adapter Kit

Item is an kit used to adapt the Kodak Tourist camera to use different film formats (828, full 620, half 620, 120) with exposures of 28 x 40mm, 5.7 x 8.25 cm, 4.14 x 5.7 cm, and 5.7 x5.7 cm respectively. The kit includes a special camera back, spool and holder, picture masks, view finder masks and a case. Imported by Canadian Kodak Company.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Kodak Flasholder Model B

Item is an external flash bulb holder for use with "cameras equipped with Kodak 'Flash' shutters". Features include a polished aluminum reflector, bulb ejector button, bracket and exposure table. Imported by Canadian Kodak Co. Limited.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Brownie Bull's-Eye Flash outfit

Item is a small metal and bakelite camera with Kodak Twindar Lens and settings indicated for scenes, groups or individuals. Used Kodak 620 film. Outfit includes a presentation box with flash holder, one-time use flash bulbs (4 of 8 have been used), user's guide, strap, and Kodacolor II negative film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Cameo Motor 110

Item is a small, horizontal camera with pop-up lens that covers viewfinder when closed. Black plastic body with rounded edges and an orange release button. Used 110 size colour cartridges, optimized for 200 film. Comes with packaging.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodascope Model B

Item is a Kodascope Model B 16mm self-threading cine projector for silent 16mm film. It appeared five years after the first 16mm projector, the Kodascope (later, Kodascope A) and was just as different as the Cine-Kodak B camera had been from the first Cine-Kodak. The position of the spools was changed to the top and back, rather than top and bottom. The projector takes up to 400 feet of 16mm film, it can run films backwards, and has a still-picture device.

Eastman Kodak Company

No. 1A Pocket Kodak

Item is a No. 1A Pocket Kodak. It is a medium sized camera with black leather casing, metal clasps, and Kodex No. 1 shutter (manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company, the rest of the camera body was produced by the Canadian branch), that made 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch exposures on 116 film. The A indicates that the camera is an Autographic version that allowed the photographer to add written information to the film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Styl'elite

Item is a small, thin horiztonal camera with brown plastic body and orange release button on top left. Flash on right, viewfinder is hidden behind slider doors. Took 110 film and 2 AA batteries. Inside film compartment, the number "23" has been etched into the plastic.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Twin 20

This camera has the unusual feature, for a non-folding camera, of both eye-level and waist-level viewfinders. The focussing lens has three aperture stops and both viewfinders shows brightline framing marks for 'Superslide' format. Flash facility is provided by the 'Pin & Screw' contacts on the left-hand side of the body, Kodak Supermite flasholder attached. Uses 620 rollfilm.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 104

Item is a small hand held camera with metal and black leatherette casing. Strap attached. Used 126 cartridge film and AAA batteries. Similar to the Instamatic 100 but utilising flashcubes rather than individual bulbs.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Tourist

Item consists of a black plastic folding camera with black bellows and black neck strap. Grey top housing with integrated viewfinder. Featuring the same unusual shutter release mechanism as the Tourist 2, this heavily built camera has a syncronised Flash Kodon shutter for it's f/12.5 Kodet lens with fully adjustable aperture, though more sophisticated models were available. Built for use with 620 film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Starflash

Item is an eyelevel rollfilm camera with medium sized flash, built of a light blue Bakelite plastic body and metal fittings. Part of the Kodak Brownie Star series, the camera was also made in red, black and white, as well as in a special rwo-tone version with a Coca-Cola logo. It features a Dakon lens, rotary shutter, built-in flashgun, two aperture settings for color and black and white, and was made for use with 127 film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Hawkeye Pocket Instamatic

Item is a small snapshot camera with narrow and horizontal body design. It has an orange coloured release button on top and is built of black and tan plastic (the tan colour mottled to look like leatherette). Made for use with 110 film, this camera resembles the Kodak Pocket Instamatic 110 in its f/11 25mm Meniscus lens, 2 speed shutter, Magicube facility and use of 110 cartridge film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Disc 4100

Item is a disc camera with a metal and black plastic body and a hinged black plastic panel covering the front of the camera that could be used as a table stand. It has a small eyelevel viewfinder, built in flash, f/2.8 12.5mm lens, shutter speeds of 1/100 and 1/200 sec., and wrist strap included. Used VR disc film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 304

Item is a small auto-exposure camera with a plastic black leatherette body and metal fittings. It features a Kodar f/8 41mm lens, central viewfinder, and a long rectangular flashcube with facility. It has a selenium meter-controlled automatic aperture system and was made for use with 126 cartridge film. Serial no. 841933.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic S-20

Item is a small automatic exposure camera with a soft grey plastic body, metal fittings, and a winding mechanism on right side to advance film.Designed for use with 126 cartridge film, it features a Kodak f/9.5 35mm lens and shutter speeds of 1/40 and 1/90 sec. Facility for flashcubes and retractable shutter release, as well as a retractable housing for the lens, similar to Instamatic S-10. Wrist strap attached. Serial no. 105820.

Eastman Kodak Company

Signet 35

Item consists of a Kodak Signet 35 camera. It has a 45mm f/3.5 Kodak Ektar Lens with rear helicoid focus. The body is sturdy cast aluminum alloy with leatherette casing, and it features an automatic film stop counter. Knobs at top allow user to wind or rewind film. It has a Kodak Synchro 300 shutter with 5 speeds and uses 35mm film. Movable metal chart at back gives the best f stop for certain conditions. It was the first of the Kodak Signet camera line.

Eastman Kodak Company

Hawkeye Instamatic II

Small snapshot camera with black and tan plastic body (mottled in places to look like leatherette) similar to the Instamatic 44. Large winding mechanism on top left for film advance, and a flashcube attachment on the top right. Made for use with 126 cartridge film, this camera featured an f/11 meniscus lens and a 1/50 sec. shutter.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Bullet II

Item is a small point-and-shoot camera with a black plastic body and metal fittings. An upgraded model of the Brownie Starlet without flash facilities, this camera features a large eyelevel viewfinder, Dakon lens and rotary shutter. Wrist strap attached. Switch at bottom front indicates use with either colour or b&w 127 film.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Tele Disc

Item is a black plastic disc camera with sliding flash which activates the the telephoto lens. Has a grey wrist strap. Front flap swings open to reveal shutter and lens. Battery door on front, takes two AA size batteries. "Kodak Tele Disc." "A disc camera by Eastman Kodak Company".

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 804

Item is a coupled-rangefinder auto-exposure hand-held camera, somewhat heavier than other Instamatics due to the use of aluminum die-castings in the camera body. It has black leatherette details and a flash cube facility above its Kodak Ektanar f2.8 38mm lens. It fits any "Series V" accessory lens or filter without adaptors.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Disc 3000

Item is a small, flat, hand-held camera with black plastic body. Intended by Kodak to replace their instamatic line of cameras, the Kodak Disc cameras were designed to be simple to use, with all automatic functions. The camera used Disc film, a proprietary format that made 15, 11 x 8 mm exposures; this small negative size made the resulting prints very grainy when enlarged and, while the camera did well when it was first introduced, it lost populatiry due to the low quality prints it produced. Item includes a built in flash and wrist strap. Similar to the 4000 model, but uses a replaceable 9 volt battery.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak Disc 4000

Item is a small, flat, hand-held camera with black plastic body and brushed metal, gold-coloured front plate. Intended by Kodak to replace their instamatic line of cameras, the Kodak Disc cameras were designed to be simple to use, with all automatic functions. The camera used Disc film, a proprietary format that made 15, 11 x 8 mm exposures; this small negative size made the resulting prints very grainy when enlarged and, while the camera did well when it was first introduced, it lost populatiry due to the low quality prints it produced. Item includes a built in flash and wrist strap.

Eastman Kodak Company

Pocket Instamatic 50

Item is a long and flat camera with black plastic, and metal casing with magicube flash attached. It is a pocket model of the first Instamatic released, the Instamatic 50. It features automatic exposure control, focusing lens, tripod bush, and allows for cable release. Two LEDs in the viewfinder indicate low light and used bulb. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it has a 26mm f/2.7 lens and 10-1/250 shutter speeds. Made an impressively sharp image.

Eastman Kodak Company

Instamatic 714

Item is a small 126 cartridge rangefinder camera with a black plastic and metal body, equipped with Kodak Ektar f/2.8 38mm lens containing thorium oxide, a radioactive material. One of the least common Instamatic models, it is similar the the Kodak Instamatic 814 in that it is heavy and features the same lens and shutter.

Eastman Kodak Company

Brownie Bull's-Eye

Item is a small metal and black bakelite camera with Kodak Twindar Lens and settings indicated for scenes, groups or individuals. Made for use with Kodak 620 film, it features an eye-level viewfinder and a shutter release button on the front side, in front of the winding knob. It was also made in beige from 1958-1960.

Eastman Kodak Company

Results 1 to 100 of 154