The Kodak Duex is a simple snapshot camera for sixteen 1-5/8" wide x 2-1/4" tall negatives on a roll of 620 film. The list price in 1940 was $5.75, which had the buying power of about $100 in 2020's depreciated dollars. The Duex has rounded ends like the 35 mm Kodak 35 cameras and resembles the popular minicam style roll film cameras that used 127 film.
Front
Top - Lens Retracted
Top - Lens Extended
Back
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Right
Bottom
The body is plastic with metal trim. The lens is a retractable Kodak Doublet and screws out to a fixed position for picture taking. The aperture is about f/11 and the focal length is about 3 inches. The lens will take a No. 13 close-up lens or a 1" Series V filter adapter. Ordinary snapshots are in focus from about 5 ft. to infinity. Pictures with the close-up lens are in focus at about 3-1/2 ft. The shutter is a rotary shutter with an "instant" setting for about 1/25 to 1/50 of a second and a "bulb" setting for as long as the shutter release is held open. The shutter will not fire with the lens retracted. The bottom has the tripod socket and the latch for the camera back. The back comes off for loading film. 120 film re-spooled on either old metal 620 spools or new plastic FPP 620 spools will work in this camera. Use ISO 100 or slower film outdoors in daylight.Kodak also made a Duo 620 camera at its factory in Stuttgart, Germany, before the Second World War. The Duo 620 was a completely different camera, although it took the same size picture.
Memorial to World War I Dead, Centennial Park, Nashville, Tennessee This picture was taken November, 2021, using Ektar 100 film.
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