Kodak 35 Rangefinder by "0". ""ET"" thus gives the number "49" for the year 1949. The Kodak 35 serial number is engraved on the front ring on the lens. Kodak 35 Rangefinder The Kodak 35 Rangefinder is an improved version of the "Kodak 35" that was launched by the Eastman Kodak Company in 1938 as their first 35mm camera manufactured in the USA. After some two years, the Company presented this improved "Kodak 35" camera, with a new superstructure housing containing a viewfinder and a separate rangefinder, but without any addition to the identifying inscription on the body. It is generally referred to
Roll film spool of roll film is usually loaded on one side of the camera and pulled across to an identical take up spool on the other side of the shutter as exposures are made. When the roll is fully exposed, the take up spool is removed for processing and the empty spool on which the film was originally wound is moved to the other side, becoming the take up spool for the next roll of film. In 1881 a farmer in Cambria, Wisconsin, Peter Houston, invented the first roll film camera. His younger brother David, filed the patents for various components