INTRODUCTION

The Kodak Bantam is part of a series of camera made in the 30s and 40s by Kodak in USA. They all use 828 film.

The Kodak Bantam Special of 1936 is the cutest. I have the Kodak Bantam 4.5 of 1938.

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PERSONAL NOTES

The Kodak Bantam of 1938 is a very compact camera, it's cute and robust. It's easy to use, and has many options for a camera of this age.

The shutter doesn't stick like many others after 50 years, it has access to many speeds and have both bulb (B) and time (T) mode.

The lens is of much better quality than box cameras, the aperture control is precise and there is a focusing scale.

The finder is not great but better than many cameras of that era, it's foldable and practial.

There is no multiple exposure prevention system, this can be a pro or con, depending on your habits.

CONCLUSION

I do like the Kodak Bantam very much, it's cute, very compact, light, solid, but... The only bad thing is that it uses 828 film, so you either have to be -very- lucky to get film, or you have to respool your own film for it. Not many people are willing to do this.

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