World, meet the "Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic Camera" Produced by Eastman Kodak from 1912-1926, it features a Kodak Anastigmat f 7.7 lens. This model was made Jan 1913 and so is 99 years old. It came all the way to me in Zambia from an antique shop in Michigan. Can I embarrass the Winters with a very huge and public THANK YOU?!! Thanks, guys. Clearly, I'm smitten.
This camera has 4 shutter speeds: 1/25, B, T, and 1/50; and 5 f-stops: Moving objects f/7.7, near view & portrait f/11, average view f/16, distant view f/22, and Marine, Clouds and Snow f/32.
Charles Linberg carried this camera with him on his flights, as did George Mallory and Andrew Irving on what may be the first summiting of Mt. Everest -- 29 years before Hillary and Tenzing's documented climb. Many of their personal effects were recovered but Irving's body and the expedition's KVP camera was not. If it is recovered - there are efforts underway to fund a controversial climb to recover Irving's body - and it's hoped, his camera.
Compact and portable, advertised as the "soldier's camera" during WWI, it's utility has outlasted our point-and-shoot nikon by nearly 100 years.
Now, to find some film.
(It takes Efke R100 127 from Fotoimpex...just in case you are out and about in Berlin)
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