Joker.

Kodak made some really good "glass" back in the day (the 203 Ektar lens, and the lens on the Medalist II come to mind), but this isn't one of them - although it is not as bad as the seller's command of the English language.

I can't speak to the camera's rarity, but as a non-collector, I wouldn't buy something that doesn't work :D
 
The large format Kodak lenses are superb. Some even prefer them to more modern glass. First time i've seen this one though. If it didn't say Kodak, I would have thought it was a Polaroid camera.
 
The English may be bad, but the camera is as rare and historic as he says. Kodak may have produced a lot of rubbish over the years but amongst other things they invented the coupled rangefinder and produced the worlds first fully automatic exposure camera, the... well, we're talking about it already.

Adrian
 
I'm no collector but I could understand someone whe is going for this particular specimen. The design looks to me to be way ahead of its time and the external condition is pretty well factory fresh, from the pictures provided.
 
stompyq said:
... If it didn't say Kodak, I would have thought it was a Polaroid camera.
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You have hit upon a longstanding fantasy of mine - to discover one of these offered at a garage sale or thrift store for only a few bucks because the seller thought it was "just another Polaroid." :D

In fairness, a Kodak Super Six-20 commands a high price today because it is actually a rare and historically significant camera - and therefore collectible. From what I have read online, it was the first production camera with automatic exposure, and amazingly that was back in 1938! They were very expensive at the time and as a result something like just over 700 of them were produced. Purely out of curiosity I keep track of eBay listings for these on and off, and and it seems to me that the prices have actually come down quite a bit. I recall them going for as high as about $3,000 (US) just a few years ago, whereas the only one which sold recently came in at $1880. Of course condition plays a big role too, and it is hard to say anything meaningful from such a small statistical sample size anyway.
 
This auction isn't for the glass. It's a working example...a fully working example...of the first auto-exposure camera in history.

The Kodak service department apparently called the Super-620 the "boomerang" because they kept coming back over and over!
 
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