1950s Vintage Kodak Brownie Starmatic Camera Complete Original Box Flash Case

Description: 1950s Vintage Kodak Brownie Starmatic Camera Complete Original Box Has Leather Case and even original flash bulbs and flash attachment & paperwork The Kodak Brownie Starmatic was a high-end part of Kodak's Brownie Star series, made between April 1959 & August 1963. This model had automatic exposure, using a selenium meter with a sensor window on the front, opposite the viewfinder. Images were 4x4cm on 127 film. Type: Automatic Solid Body Eyelevel RollfilmIntroduced: April 1959Discontinued: Aug 1963Film size: 127Picture size: 1 5/8 X 1 5/8"Manufactured: USLens: Kodar f/8Shutter: RotaryNumbers made: ?Original price: $34.50 for Starmatic or Starmatic II Description:The Starmatic cameras have a molded plastic body with an optical direct vision finder. It uses a photocell for an automatic exposure setting, which proved to be accurate, and screw and pin flash contacts for use with a variety of flash holders. In August of 1961 the Starmatic II was introduced with a two-tone grey body and two speed shutter. Variations:August 1961 - August 1963: Starmatic II with two-tone grey body and two speed shutter Fun Facts:This fun little Brownie Starmatic camera uses 127 film, keeping the size small, while delivering a 1 5/8" X 1 5/8" negative that was either contact printed or enlarged. This seems to have been marketed to the camera user who wanted a camera that needed something set but wanted to point and shoot. The automatic exposure feature pumped the price up quite high for a Brownie camera. I did find, using the camera pictured above, that when the film speed is set on the little dial, that the automatic exposure via the photocell was quite accurate and produced excellent results!

Price: 56.5 USD

Location: Walled Lake, Michigan

End Time: 2025-01-03T14:38:10.000Z

Shipping Cost: 6.4 USD