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The Kodak 35 was launched by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1938 as their first 35mm camera manufactured in the USA. It was developed in Rochester, New York when it became apparent that the company could no longer rely on import from their Kodak AG factory in Germany during the troubled times prior to the Second World War. The Eastman Kodak Company had greatly depended on Dr. August Nagel's capabilities as a camera designer and manufacturer by acquiring his factory and making him director of Kodak AG in Stuttgart. The German factory had been the single source of ''35mm'' Kodak cameras, producing the successful ''Kodak Retina'' cameras to go with the new ''Kodak 135 daylight-loading film cassette'' starting in 1934. ==The original viewfinder model== The first Kodak 35 has no rangefinder. It resembles slightly to cameras like the German ''Wirgin Edinex'' and ''Adox Adrette''. It takes thirty-six 24×36 mm frames on 135 film. The precision molded black Bakelite body has satin-chromed top and base plates, and a collapsible finder is mounted on top center. The removable Bakelite back with the attached base plate slides easily off for film handling. It is secured by a centrally located wing key in the base plate. Turning the key also slackens the spring tension of the chromed steel film pressure plate, a very unusual feature presumably incorporated to facilitate reassembling the camera rather than preventing scratching the film during rewind, which would have been a novel feature. Prominently placed at the top are the large wind-on and rewind knobs, the right-hand one is the film advance knob, both to be operated in the clockwise direction. Next to it is a manually reset automatic frame counter dial and the chromed wind-on release button, the latter not to be mistaken for the shutter release. The front element focusing Kodak lens has a rigid lensmount set in a Kodak inter-lens shutter. The shutter is cocked by a gear coupling to the sprocket-wheel drum, which is trailing along with the passing film during the wind-on operation. Hence, there is no shutter cocking without a film in the camera. An automatic mechanism locates the next frame on the film by locking the advance knob. It is released for the next frame by depressing the wind-on release button before turning the wind-on knob. This prevents double exposure, but not blank frames since nothing prevents pressing the button again and advance the film. However, a red indicator is shown to the left in a slot on the top of the shutter cover that indicates the camera has been wound. The shutter release, in the shape of a rearward-pointing pin attached to the shutter release lever, is situated at about 10-o'clock at the shutter housing. It is protected from being accidentally triggered by a small cover extending over it. Rewinding the film into its cassette is accomplished by first pulling the wind-on knob to its raised position followed by turning the left-hand top mounted rewind-knob clock-wise; this is accompanied by a rattling noise. It is not possible to raise the wind-on knob if it is not free to rotate, it is freed by turning the knob clock-wise while depressing the double exposure prevention button. The frame counter dial rotates during rewind as long as the film passes the sprocket wheel drum. The wind gears, which is visible inside the machined steel film chamber. All internal metal parts are either plated steel or brass. The film pressure-plate is chrome-plated polished steel, while the other parts are nickel-plated. A variety of lens and shutter combinations appeared during the production period:〔 *1938-1945: ''Kodak Anastigmat f/5.6 50mm'' in ''KODEX SHUTTER'', or *1938-1949: ''Kodak Anastigmat Special f/3.5 51mm'' in ''KODAMATIC SHUTTER'', or *1946-1947: ''Kodak Anastigmat f/4.5 50mm'' in ''FLASH DIOMATIC SHUTTER'', *1947-1948: ''Kodak Anastigmat Special f/3.5 51mm'' in ''FLASH KODAMATIC SHUTTER'', or *1947-1948: ''Kodak Anaston f/4.5 50mm'' in ''FLASH DIOMATIC SHUTTER''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kodak 35」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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