35mm Camera

Name/Title

35mm Camera

Entry/Object ID

1000.1726.155

Description

Camera, 35mm

Made/Created

Manufacturer

Eastman Kodak Co.

Notes

where made: Rochester, NY model name: Signet 80 model number: Signet 80 serial number: 28603

Color

Black Chrome

General Notes

Note

The Kodak Signet 80 was the last and most sophisticated camera in Kodak's Signet line. It is an interchangeable lens 35 mm range finder camera produced from 1958 to 1962 by Kodak in the USA. The body, constructed of die-cast metal and (mostly) Bakelite, has a coincident coupled range finder combined with a very nice life-sized projected frame viewfinder. The camera has a synchronized behind-the-lens leaf shutter in a unique scissors lock lens mount. Two of the three Signet 80 lenses, the 50mm and 90mm, contain thorium oxide, and are somewhat radioactive.