[r0ckstarr]

My girlfriends mother gave them to me. I was able to open and clean the Starflash and the Starflex. The others, I cannot figure out how to get them open. Either the switch on the back is stuck, or I am doing something wrong. Does anybody have any other info over them? The Starflex has the instruction manual with it, so I know it takes 620 film. That's pretty much it. Maybe an idea of their age? Thanks.

[Nesster]

The starflex takes 127 film... here is a good site for all things Kodak and Brownie, including some manuals, and links to sites that have manuals


kodak classics - mischa koning

I'd bought some 127 for my Starflex, but discovered that somewhere along the line the shutter stopped working. I can get it to go but by poking at it. Bah. Now I need to buy another 127 film camera

Here's a link to a 35 manual:
Camera Collecting and Restoration

[boriscleto]

With the Reflex Syncro you move the lever on the back to unlock and pull the bottom off. It takes 127 roll film. Do you have the fake leather cover?

[r0ckstarr]

Thanks for the links. I read the manual. I don't know why I typed 620, lol.

No, the only one that has the leather cover is the Starflex. Also, the hood is missing in the photo of the Starflex, but I have it. I was in the middle of cleaning it up when I took the pics.

I assume the lever on the Reflex Syncro is stuck then. I cannot get it to move. I don't want to push on it too hard in fear of breaking it.

[RioRico]

Oh gzz, a Kodak 35! I hate those things! I've had a couple, and they're about the worst torture devices this side of The Rack. I think Kodak built those in response to the Argus C3 "The Brick" which was hugely popular in the US in the 1950's, even kept 35mm viable as a film format here, because The Brick looked so 'technical'. So Kodak added even more gears, to produce one of the ugliest and glitchiest cameras of all time. Put that one on a pedastal, to be admired! Just don't try to use it.

[r0ckstarr]

I was tempted to try it out until I started googling about it, and read how much people hate it. Looks like it will be spending some time on the closet shelf.

[Ratmagiclady]

Aww, I had a Starflash when I was yea high. Also when I was a young child.

[ChrisPlatt]

Small world! My mom (the family photographer) had a Starflash, too.

I still have a number of her old 127 slides (so-called "superslides", 4x4 cm transparencies in 2x2" mounts, which fit any 35mm slide projector)
including some of me as a baby at the 1964-65 NY World's Fair. Time hasn't been kind to those old Anscochromes...

Chris