See the original post regarding this camera here
The Kodak 35 was the first 35mm camera made by Kodak for sale. It is a brute made with solid stainless steel gears and spindles. The camera uses the actual pulling of the film by the winding knob to cock the shutter and move the exposure counter. The sacrificial rolls of old Fuji film that was stored next to an overheated nuclear reactor for ten years made many strange noises emit from the interior of the camera as I turned the film advance. The pressure to cock the shutter was so great at the start that I feared for the film itself. After running two 24 exposure rolls through it, with a touch here and there of camera oil, it freed up quite well.
The serial #316XX is on the case. Kodak began using the CAMEROSITY code on lenses in 1940, so until proven otherwise, since the serial number is on the bottom plate and none on the lens, it was made in the 1938-39 span, rather than the 1940-1948 end of production run.
I got the test roll from this camera today. The pictures here are very poor compared to the actual prints. I used a 24 exposure roll of Kodak Gold 100 film. The instruction manual had speed ratings for the old Kodak B&W films of the time. I then adjusted these values to the current ISO film ratings and got a Sunny Day exposure of 1/100 with f11.0. The prints look very nice. I told the guy to just develop and print the results with no tweaking and to make a CD. The exposures are right on except where I forced the aperture to check the depth of field and expected ghosting at dark/light junctures.
This is the last time I use the CD service from this place – the results as shown here suck. Every picture is pixelated at the 1500×1024 original scan size. If my PC was connected to the scanner I would have scanned the prints or negatives myself.
Anyways – the camera works just fine. I will now take a few rolls of B&W Kodak C41 process film and see the results. I doubt the lens is coated well, if at all. The B&W I will post on my f22plus.wordpress.com website.
The first is the picture of a tub of flowers in the front yard. The second is a focus on the light post at the wide open f4.5, the third is the post at f16- the other end of the range.
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