Help identifiying 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 film camera

[Tony Egan]

I have been scanning some family negatives from the mid 1930s and wondered what the most likely camera was used to take them. The exposed image area is 4 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches and it is roll film about 6.9cm (2 3/4 inches wide). My googling so far has revealed it is most likely to be a Kodak 1A folding camera using 116 film. Any other possibilities it might have been?
I am talking about a working class farming family in the Australian countryside so I imagine Kodak would have been the only affordable brand with that kind of reach in the 1920s/30s using this film?
One image attached - 3 of my great uncles/aunts and two of their cousins. Not bad for 70+ year old negs.
Thanks for your confirmation or any other suggestions.

 

[Ian Grant]

Easy s we had a thread about them 2-3 days ago.

Kodak 116 film size is possibly correct, the Kodak Autographic 1a was discontinued 1932, however Kodak then introduced the 616 film and the the Kodak Six-16 & Six-16 Junior cameras, all were once very common. The Six-16's had a variety of lenses & shutters.

116 and 616 film were used in other cameras, with different negative formats but the two above both gave 2½" x 4¼" negatives which were designed to be contact printed onto Velox paper. Like 620/120, 616 was on a thinner spool than 116 but otherwise identical. I have a 1935 advert for the Kodak Six-16's I could copy for you.

Ian

 

[MattKing]

Tony:

Here is a photo showing a 616 camera that I began using in the 1960s, and still use from time to time with 120 film and a bit of adaptation:

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

The camera was manufactured by Kodak in Canada (probably about 1934) but I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't also manufactured in other locations around the world. The negatives would have been 2 1/2 x 4 1/4.

Matt

 

[Ian Grant]

Kodak had a factory at Abbotsford, Melbourne, but the Canadian (Toronto) & Australian factories were much smaller than Kodak's two main factories in Rochester & Harrow. Rochester probably dwarfed all the others put together.

Kodak UK made everything, including some products not sold in the US, and was also an important Research centre, Kodak (Australia) was supplied by Rochester & Harrow, I've no idea what was made locally.

Ian