1932 ad for Kodak’s European line of cameras headed for the USA
Toronto. I recently suggested that Kodak SIX-20 folders and their brethren were “too little, too late“. This ad two years earlier in the International Photographer in 1932 suggests Kodak was covering its bets with imports from the recently purchased Nagel factory in Europe to add a “European” flavour to its stable of cameras.
Featured is the Kodak Pupille camera with a great Schneider f/2 lens (other lenses were offered too) and a decent Compur leaf shutter spanning the range from 1 second to 1/300th of a second – well suited to the rather slow films of the day.
But also mentioned in the ad’s sidebar are a number of other Kodak imports to North America from its German factory. This ad was found and shared by my good friend and fellow PHSC member, George Dunbar. Who says Kodaks were all folders or box cameras?
