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The Cine-Kodak has a large alloy body
21.5 cm long, 20 cm high and 11.5 cm
wide, painted with a black crackle
finish relieved by a "projection beam"
motif and an “EKC” symbol on the
door. With its strong leather carry
handle it looks very much like an
overgrown box camera - a "Brownie" of
course.

The rear view, showing the controls
and recessed crank handle (turned at
2 revs per second for 16 FPS- silent
speed).

Left: The "Business End",
with a deeply recessed
25mm f3.5 Kodak lens
(giving superb image quality)
and the viewfinder lens.
Right: Copying the layout of
earlier "Professional" 35mm
cameras, the rear panel
carried the lens controls
(aperture and distance), the
exposed footage counter and
a "Direct" viewfinder that
provided a bright, inverted,
image. Yes, an upside down
image reversed from left to
right, something almost
impossible to use on a
motion picture camera.
WHY? By the early 1920s
other manufacturers were
using the superior Newton
viewfinder.

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