![]() Note that Kodak breaks the year into thirteen four-week cycles, based on the International Fixed Calendar. A number of the 1970s and 1980s bodies have a four letter code, where the last two letters stand for the year and the first two letters stand for the Kodak production cycle in that year. Many of the bodies also use the CAMEROSITY encoding used for the lenses. Image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson ( Image rights) The code is stamped inside at the bottom of the camera Production code 'YCRA' in a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Flash Thus a lens with the serial number EA12345 would have been produced in 19 42 The letters represent the last two digits of the year. Image by Dirk HR Spennemann ( Image rights)įrom the early 1940s onwards, Kodak encoded the serial numbers of its US-made lenses, and in many instances, also camera bodies, using a two letter combination prefix which was encoded with the made-up word ' CAMEROSITY.' This resolves as follows: The code is hidden below the film advance Production code 'YRIS' in a Kodak Brownie II 110
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