Manufactured by the Kodak Nagel-Werke in Germany, the Duo Six-20 in its various forms was marketed between 1934 and 1940. This model, the Series II, was on the market between 1937 and 1939. It has the 7.5 cm, f/3.5 Kodak Anastigmat lens with Compur-Rapid shutter, with apertures of 3.5, 4, 5.6, 8, 11, 16 and 22; and shutter speeds of 1, 2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, 500, T and B. It has a folding optical viewfinder, and as its name implies, is a dual-format camera that shoots 16 frames on 620 film.

A very nice gentleman who runs his own camera-related website used to own two of these until he sold me this one. I got it in January 2012 and immediately shot two rolls of film thru it: one B&W and one Color. The B&W is Ilford FP4 film, expired by 20 years or more (they don't make plain old FP4 nowadays, it's FP4 Plus); the color film was Fuji Reala 100 film, about 5 years expired. Both rolls were home-developed and scanned at my local lab.

I can't get over the beautiful cosmetic and operating condition of this camera that just so happens to be just a bit older than my parents. Hell, I should be so lucky to still work at age 70-something! But I'm very pleased with my newest acquisition in my favorite film format, and hope to use as often as I can.

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