Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 350 instant camera with an electronic flash and close-up lens. It retailed for $96.50 USD when it came on the market.
Camera has faceplate attached; rare, as in 1976 Polaroid launched a lawsuit against Eastman Kodak for patent infringement. After a fifteen year legal battle, Polaroid won and Kodak wrote them a check for $925 million, which was the largest settlement ever paid in a patent trial and Judge Rya Sobel barred the company from the instant-photo business. Due a class-action suit, Kodak then had to buy back the cameras for as it could no longer supply film so it offered a refund for customers if they mailed in the faceplate.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is a battery-powered Colourburst 50 instant camera with a flash. The camera was produced by Kodak to compete with the Polaroid brand of instant cameras.

Item is a lot of 3 condensor lenses for photo enlargers.

Item is an automatic exposure single-lens reflex 35mm camera. Metering is center-weighted and aperture priority.

Item is a 35mm camera with a built in electric 3 frames per second motor winder powered by four AA batteries that also run the metering and shutter timing. The camera has modes for aperture priority and manual.

Item consists of a Contax camera body for photographs on 35mm film. Camera body is all-metal, die-cast with eye level penta-prism, shutter speeds of B-1/1000 second and hot shoe. Lens mount is a Contax/Yashica with a Yashica 35-105mm zoom lens. Works with 4 AA batteries. Includes manual.

Item is a 35mm camera with satin chrome finish on top and trim. Winding and speed setting on top right, shutter speeds to 1/1250, and rangefinder and viewfinder windows combined. Lens is a Sonnar 50mm, 1:2.

Item is a 4.5 x 6 cm strut-folding plate camera with a black leather-covered metal body and wire folding frame. Camera uses a Carl Zeiss Jena Troitar f6.3/75 mm lens.

Item is an inexpensive plastic "3-D" stereo camera made by the Coronet Camera Company. The camera has a binocular viewfinder for 4 stereo pairs or 8 single exposures and uses 127 film for 4.5 x 5 cm exposures, featuring a single speed shutter, 1/50, and a twin f11 meniscus fixed-focus lenses.

Item is a molded walnut Bakelite camera with cast metal hardware and dual lenses. The front metal plate is cast with "CORONET, MIDGET, 16 mm FILM, MADE BY THE CORONET CAMERA CO. BIRMINGHAM, BRITISH PATENTS APPLIED FOR, DESIGN REGISTERED." The Moroccan leather case has the company logo and "MADE IN ENGLAND" in gold letterpress.

Photograph of baby and cat, with illustration of cameras being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, it originally sold for $74.95, but now usually sells for around $20. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash and a built-in mechanical timer. Serial number is EX119478.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, it originally sold for $92.95, but now usually sells for around $10. It comes with a manual. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash and has a glass lens with an aperture of f/8.8.

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. It comes with a manual. It originally retailed for $59.95 and now sells for around $20. The flash uses an M3 bulb and the lens is 2 element plastic. The options for aperture control are f/8.8, f/42 and shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. It is similar to Polaroid Model 210 and Model 315 with the addition of a built-in mechanical timer. Serial number is DB254542.

File consists of 6 contact sheets and 3 prints of the Kodak Create-a-Print system, a self-operated enlargement centre for 35 mm negatives, located at the Blackwell Image Centre and Alt Camera.

File consists of transparencies featuring images of the Kodak Create-a-Print system, a self-operated enlargement centre for 35 mm negatives, located at the Blackwell Image Centre and Alt Camera.

File consists of colour prints featuring images of employees demonstrating the Kodak Create-a-Print system, a self-operated enlargement centre for 35 mm negatives, located at the building 4 Image Centre

Item is a "hit" type novelty camera for 14 x 14 mm exposures on 17.5 mm paper-backed rollfilm.

Item consists of a compact, digital camera with a black metal body. Lens is a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tessar with 4 x optical and 2 x digital zoom, a shutter speed of 1/8 of a second to 1/1600 of a second, an aperture range of F2.8-F5.8, and an effective focal range of 32-128 mm. The CCD optical sensor has a resolution of 7.2 mega pixels and the ISO range is 100 to 3200. The camera includes a built-in TTL flash, requires a Sony NP-BG1 lithium ion battery, and features "Advanced Face Detection" technology and camera orientation detection.

Item is a cast metal, 9.5 mm projector for motion picture film. Designed for home use. It has a manual crank to advance the film.

It is meant for small 9.5mm film reels or film cartridges, but users could buy attachments arms that fit 300 ft. reels.

Item is a automatic snapshot camera for photographs on 35 mm film. DL refers to "drop-in loading". Includes a 28mm/45mm standard lens. Has a display function of the date on the photos.

Photograph of older man smiling at two women in graduation caps and gowns, and photograph of camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information - describes affordability and use of camera advertised.

Item is a Dallmeyer camera lens and usually sells for around $220. It was used for aerial reconnaissance by the British during World War II.

Series contains textual records related to the marketing and sales in the Motion Picture and Audiovisual (M.P.A.V.) department at Kodak Canada.

Item consists of a brick-shaped brown plastic camera. It creates 40 24 x 32 mm exposures on 35 mm film in special cassttes. The camera uses a Graf Anastigmat f7/7/40 mm lens with a single-speed shutter that trips by counterclockwise motion on the winding crank.

Item is a cast metal, magic lantern projector for glass lantern slides.

Items in this series are photographic devices designed to be inconspicuous, intended for photographers to make candid exposures without the subject being aware. The first detective cameras appeared with the production of commercially available dry plates and designs were simple box camera style constructions. These were, in fact, very similar to standard cameras of the time, but were smaller, handheld and able to make exposures relatively quickly. As smaller, flexible film materials became available, these cameras began to be produced disguised as objects such as pocket watches, ties, books, hats, pens and walking sticks.

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Item is a black-and-white illustrated guidebook for photographic processing.

Item is a black/gray camera used with 120 cartridge film, includes a 75mm lens. Mainly used as a promotional item due to cheap quality.

Item is a black bakelite minicam for 3 x 4 cm. on 127 film.

Series contains cameras that are designed to capture images using sensors and digital storage media instead of film, as well as pre-digital cameras that combined digital technology with film.
The digital camera replaced the traditional film camera in all but a few niche markets very quickly; as of the beginning of the 21st century, all amateur and most professional photogrpahy now takes place in the digital format. These early cameras track the rapid increase of image quality and camera optinos avilable to the consumer.

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Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. Comes with a case, manual, dental equipment and with a selection of close up lenses. The maker of this camera specialized in modifying Polaroid cameras for dental and forensic work. It was based on a Polaroid 600 series Supercolor camera, but the Sonar focus was locked to a specific point and disabled, and a mount was fitted to the camera enabling the lenses to be changed. The viewfinder modified, as well as the flash, through the use of diffusers. The flash also was fitted with a slide to reduce the power and balance exposure. Due to their custom built nature, this and other Dine cameras are rare. Serial number is H9K7551VDD.

Item consists of 1 exposed disc negative film for colour photographic prints.

Item is a small strapless box camera with a single viewfinder that uses 127 film for 4x6.5cm exposures. Some versions are identified "Ansco Dollar Camera" on the front but this specific one only has "Ansco" on the front. This model also came in black, green, and red. The red version with a strap is known as the "Kiddie Camera".

Photograph of older man and young girl, sitting at a table playing cards, and illustration of Super Sensitive film box and informational pamphlet. Text contains consumer information.

Photograph of man holding a hoop while a collie jumps through it, with illustration of camera being advertised. Text contains consumer information.

This series contains cameras designed for use with commercially manufactured dry plate negatives. Produced between about 1880 and 1900, these cameras began to be marketed to amateur photographers due to the relative ease of using dry plates. Exposure times shortened, necessitating faster shutters, within the lens or camera. The equipment also became more compact, allowing for hand-held photographs.

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Item consists of a Kodak Duaflex I camera and a Kodak Duaflex flash-holder. Camera is black and silver with a Kodet lens. Uses 620 film. Tripod mount. Made in Toronto. 620 roll film pseudo twin-lens reflex. Flash-holder imported by the Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd. Toronto, for use with early Duaflex models I and II. Synchronized for SM and SF bulbs when the camera was set on "I". No. 5 and No. 25 bulbs could be used with the "B" setting.

Item is to be used for duplication of 35mm slides or film strips. The bellows are folded into the adapter unit and is kept in place out of sight with a magnet to protect it from damage. Manufactured by Century Optics.

Item is a 35 mm single lens reflex camera. Features include automatic exposure using selenium light metering, with 3 sensors positioned around the lens, a Lanthar 2.8 50mm lens, and Prontor-Matic-Y shutter.

Item is a copy print that is accompanied by the following description: "Workers in the early 1900s assembling the Number 4A Folding Kodak camera, considered to be the ancestor of all modern folding roll cameras."

This series consists of original and duplicate early cameras from the beginning of the history of photography. Based on the basic design of the camera obscura and produced between about 1820 and 1870, these simple devices were usually solid or sliding box cameras with uncomplicated lenses. The shutter was normally outside of the lens, in the form of a lens cap that was simple removed and replaced for exposure, or a rotating metal plate on the front of the lens, which held the aperture. These cameras mainly predated dry plate and flexible film photography, and were used to take Daguerreotype, wet-plate and salted paper photographs.

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Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture cameras, projectors, and other accessories.

Item is an illustrated catalogue of Eastman Kodak's motion picture projectors, cameras, and other accessories.

Item is an empty canister for EVT-1000 broadcast quality professional videotape, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company in 1984.

Item consists of an empty box for Eastman Films. Inscribed in pencil on lid reads: "Number 57 to 83 / September 15 to Nov 20 / /94".

File consists of three 3-ring binders, created between 1929 and 1943, containing detailed, illustrated instructions and equipment lists designed to serve as reference material for those responsible for repairing Kodak still and motion picture cameras. Information contained within the binders was created and distributed on a subscription basis by Eastman Kodak Company. Subscribers would receive periodic updates of information, which could be added to the binders over time.

Item consists of a narrow and tall Eastman Plate Tank, used in processing glass plate negatives. It features an embossed timer on the front.

Item consists of a roll of Eastman Plus-X Reversal Safety Film for 16mm cameras in original packaging. It is in a black metal canister sealed with black fabric tape.

Item consists of an Eastman Studio Scale. It has a wooden base, a 6 piece weight set and a plaque that reads Avoirdupois Weight. It was used to facilitate the mixing of chemicals in a photographer's dark room.

Item consists of 3 viewing lenses designed to be used by the photographer during lighting set up to determine how the scene will appear when captured by different kinds of photographic film. Set includes standard, gaffer, and panchromatic lenses.

Item is a contact printing frame, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Company.

Item is a binder with printed reference material for Kodak salesmen to refer to when discussing Kodak products and equipment with customers. The preface page states: "This manual is provided to help the saleman answer the technical questions asked by his customers. These questions cover a wide field both in the theory and practice of photography. Photographic knowledge has become so vast that it is impossible to carry all the pertinent information in one's mind, so this manual is now provided as a ready reference. It may be used in the presence of the customer." Organized by tabs, the subjects include: 1 - Still Cameras; 2 - Negative Materials; 3 - Color Filters; 4 - Miniature Camera Technique; 5 - Photographic Papers; 6 - Development; 7 - Formulas; 8 - Exposure; 9 - Negative Print Faults; 10 - Cine Kodak; 11 - Color Photography; 12 - Darkroom. Item was designed to be added to over time. Includes correspondence related to the Eastman Photographic Course for Salesmen, as well as two letter from John W. McFarlane, Eastman Kodak editor of the reference manual. Item likely belonged to W.H. Davis, before being passed onto W. Bruce Poldon.

Item is 2 package of photographic paper: Eastman Kodak paper, 2.25 x 3.25 size Solio Paper and Velvet velox developing paper. Both manufactured by Candian Kodak Co. Limited. Directions are missing from both packages.

Item is a flash attachment for single-use bulbs, with a circular folding reflector. The brand name is Eddie Black's Ltd., an early iteration of the Canadian firm Black's PHotography.

Item is a copy print featuring an image with the caption: "This is an artist's depiction of the Edison Kinetoscope parlour which opened April 14, 1894 at 115 Broadway in New York City." I-88-1454

Item is a subminiature camera for 12 x 17 mm exposures on unperforated or single perforated 16 mm film in Super 16 cartridges. The camera has a coupled accessory lightmeter and a detachable metal chain. The item has a programmed shutter B, f2.8/30 to f22/150, and uses a Schneider Xenar f2.8/25 mm lens. This camera has the inscription " Wirgin Wiesbaden-West-Germany". All Edixa 16 cameras with this inscription were made by Frank Werk.

Item consists of 2 rolls of Kodak Ektachrome ASA 160 Tungston sound movie film for cameras accepting the super 8 sound cartridge. It is a high speed film.

Item is a small camera with a rectagular body made of black plastic and a green #1 on the top. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it is a basic camera with fixed focus and a flipflash connector. Made for the Canadian market, this camera is labelled in French and English, and reads "appareil Kodak EKTRA camera" in silver above the green #1.

Item is a small camera with a rectagular body made of black plastic and a green #2 on the top. Made for use with 110 cartridge film, it is a basic camera with fixed focus and a flipflash connector. Made for the Canadian market, this camera is labelled in French and English, and reads "appareil Kodak EKTRA camera" in silver beside the green #2. The Ektra 2 is unique in that it features an exposure guide for different types of film printed on the base in white.

Item is a small rectangular camera with a black plastic body, flip out lens, and a 22mm f/5.6 lens. Made for the Canadian market, it reads "appareil Kodak EKTRALITE camera" beside a silver on green number "30".

Item is a compact viewfinder camera with a built-in electronix flash, made for use with 110 cartridge film. Manufactured for the Canadian market, its nameplate reads: "appareil Kodak EKRALITE 500 camera". It features a hinged camera body that also serves as a camera grip. It has a Kodak Reomar 22mm kens and requires a 9 volt battery.

Item is a brown handheld electric view master first manufactured by Swayer's Inc and first introduced at the New York World Fair (1939-1940). Once pressed down the lever on the side of the viewer will rotate the reel one frame at a time once pressed. Unlike previous view masters, this view master comes with a built in back light attached to an electrical cord. Once turned on the back light illuminates transparencies on view. Item is made of plastic and metal. Reel has 7 diametrical, 16 mm colour transparencies of The Atlas of Human Anatomy, Head and Neck.

File contains three film cannisters and 2 film spools for Cine-Kodak 8mm film.

Various photograph envelopes from Kodak in Montreal QC, Gurds Sports Hobbies in London ON, and Tamblyn Tel-Vision Prints in Toronto. Advertisements for Verichrome Safety film on Kodak envelopes. One envelope contains two prints of A.T. Orr, one with him and a group of friends, the other holding game after hunting.

Item is a 48 gallon copper kettle with a silver-plated liner. It was installed in building #3 of the Kodak Heights plant in 1915 for making photographic emulsion for black and white paper and was used until 1974. The kettle was used to make the first photographic emulsion produced in Canada and was referred to as the "making kettle".

Item is a wood and brass folding tailboard wet plate field camera, likely of English manufacture, for 10.7 x 8.2 cm (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation with square bellows, hinged ground glass focusing screen, and no shutter. Bellows are extended by twin tracks. The slide out lens board has a mounted brass lens, of unidentified manufacture, with rotating aperture wheel and leather lens cap.

The camera is very similar in design to a 1/4 wet plate camera model designed by W. Morley, London, but does not have the identifying makers marks.

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, likely of English manufacture, for (3 1/4" x 4 1/4") or "quarter plate" exposures on glass plates. Camera is a landscape orientation, bellows are extended and clipped in place with keyhole slugs and focused using twin tracks. The fixed lens board has a mounted f8 brass Taylor Taylor and Hobson brass lens with no shutter.

Item is a group of accessories to be used with a photographic enlarger. Individual pieces include filter holders, negative holders, andfocusing lenses.

Item is an Ensign rollfilm box camera that takes 3.25 x 2.25 inch exposures on 120 film. The camera has two viewfinders, three unlabelled aperture settings, and two shutter speeds.

Item is a folding camera for use with leather carrying strap.

Item is black, pressed steel, miniature folding camera for 1¼" x 1⅝" exposures on E10 film. The camera has a fixed focus lens and rotary shutter, the faceplate has a stripped geometric design. The model numbers on the Ensign Midget corresponded with the original sales price, with this model costing 22 shillings when manufactured.

Item is a folding camera for 1 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches (3.8 x 5.7 cm ), exposures on Ensign E1 or Eastman Kodak no. 128 size roll-film. The camera has black leather bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model, with two medallions on the front plates, was manufactured in 1911 or later (earlier versions had plain front plates).

Item is a black painted brass body folding camera for 3" x 2" exposures on Ensign 2E roll film. The camera has black cloth bellows and a waist level brilliant viewfinder. This model has a brass body and wheel stop aperture dating it from prior to 1920, when the company switched to aluminum.

Item is a folding camera with black bellows and a leather carrying strap. The camera has a Aplanatic f10.5 lens. The body of the camera has a black leatherette covering with the impression of "ERNO" on the front and "C.M.F" on the back.

Item is a double 8 cine camera taking 25' spools, optical eye-level finder and spring motor with Reichert Solar f1.9/12.5 mm. This item was produced in the late 1950's and is accompanied by a leather bag, original user's manual and orange lens filter. Written in the small pocket of the bag : Alfred Silverman, 44 Barclay RD, Downsview, Ont. Small knob on the back used to record.

Item is a cast metal, 8mm projector for motion picture film.

Item is a 35 mm. film camera designed by Karl Nüchterlein and produced by the Ihagee Kamerawerk company in Dresden, Germany. The Exakta has interchangeable lenses, 1/30 - 1/60 Horz. Shutter and an Accura Diamatic 1:2.8 28mm lens attached.

Item is a small format camera for 35mm exposures on 127 film. The kit includes a carrying case, Weston Master II light meter, filters, waist level viewfinder, lens hood and extender tube. Lens is a Carl Zeiss Jena Pncolar 50mm f2 lens.

Item is a 35mm camera, the first with interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses. This one has a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 2/58 lens (serial A# 5545070).

Item is a postwar model camera, made in occupied East Germany. is possibly a variant of the VX 500 , but not exactly like it. The prism can be removed, shutter speeds are B, Flash, 1/30 to 1/500 sec, double flash sync contact at left side, lens is West German Schneider Zreuznach Xenon 50mm f1.9.

Item is a small format camera for 35mm exposures on 127 film. The kit includes a carrying case, Weston Master II light meter, filters, waist level viewfinder, lens hood, Bushness Reflect Adapter, extender tube, Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar 50mm lens and Steinheil Munchen Culminar 135mm lens. This camera outfit is designed for macrophotography and photomicrography and includes attachments for a micorscope.

Item is a small novelty film camera that is disguised as a railroad pocket watch, first produced into early 1900's and sold until 1939. The exposure is made through the winding stem and the winding knob serves as a lens cap, and required special film cartridges. The camera is relatively common, as it was marketed for so long and several variations exist in the "Expo" trademark style, the winding knob, and the viewfinder shape. Black, red, blue enameled versions produced about 1935 are rarer.

Item is an extinction exposure meter for motion picture cameras.

Item consists of a Falcon Miniature made in New York by Utility Manufacturing Company. It is a 127 film camera with a half frame viewfinder and a black Bakelite body. It has a Wollensak Minivar 50mm lens with fixed aperture and fixed focus, a one speed (1/25 +B) rotary shutter, a simple optical viewfinder and a spare film compartment.

Item is a 35mm stereo camera with CdS metering. Manual or automatic exposure. 24 x 29mm images. Industar-81 F2.8/38mm lenses. Comes with leather pouch, sun shades, small parts, and hard plastic case.

Item is a typical handheld camera using 5.7 inch roll film. The transport is by a built-in clockwork (one shot at a time) to be wound by a large lever at the left of the body to generate a flat film plane. Some suction is generated during exposure. Shutter is made by Ilex (Rochester NY) 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 sec.The lens is also by Ilex Optical Co - Paragon Anasigmat f6.3. Accessories include 1 38mm Yellow Filter and 2 Metal Slides.

This series contains view cameras whose lighter and more compact design, as compared to larger, studio style cameras, allowed for them to be easily transported for use in outdoor settings and for travelling. Alterations like collapsible bellows (folding into either the back of the camera, the front or both), smaller lenses, and folding bodies allowed for the camera to be collapsed for easier movement. The advent of pre-prepared photographic dry plates (and later sheet film). further facilitated landscape and other outdoor photography.

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Item is a black plastic camera, for 3 x 4 cm exposures on Bantam or Juka film and was a novelty camera marketed towards young amateur photographers. The actual image size is 32 x 40 mm. The camera includes a Meniscus f11/50mm lens.

Item is a film back for 6x9 cm plates or film packs.

Item is a set of two holders for 6x9 cm plates or film packs.

Item is a tube containing chemicals that were to be dissolved in water to develop prints for film and plates.