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The Kodak Signet 35 was Kodak's top American-made 35mm camera of the 1950's and the first of the Kodak Signet camera line. The Signet 35 has a coupled coincident image rangefinder, an excellent Ektar 44mm f3.5 lens with rear helicoid focus, automatic film stop counter with double exposure prevention, all built into a sturdy cast aluminum alloy body. The manually cocked Kodak Synchro 300, shutter works well, but compared with the shutters on equivalent German and Japanese cameras of the period, it has significantly fewer speeds (B, 1/25, 1/50, 1/100, and 1/300). However, time has proved the shutter to be very reliable, especially when compared to some of Kodak's leaf shutters of more impressive specifications.

 

Source: camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Kodak_Signet_35

The Signet 80 was a late and rather ambitious addition to Kodak's midrange Signet series. The three interchangeable lenses may have been aimed at the era's Argus C44, but arguably Ann Arbor stole right back with the styling of the Autronic 35.

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Alexander Baron: There's no home (The wine of Etna).

Signet Books 1951.

Cover art by Stanley Meltzoff.

 

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Just getting rid of my coat, to turn into something brighter..

Artist: Emma Dunne

Medium: Photograph

 

I felt very privileged to get a picture of this beautiful family, whilst on a visit to Reddish Vale Bird Sanctuary.

 

Maureen McKernan: The amazing crime and trial of Leopold and Loeb.

Signet Books 1957.

 

Kodak Signet 80 viewfinder camera with 50mm f/2.8 and a Kodak Retina Reflex III SLR camera with a Schneider-Kreuzuach 50mm f/1.9 lens.

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

James Ross: They don't dance much.

Signet Books 1952.

Cover art by Stanley Meltzoff.

1948. Signet (New American Library) branched off from Penguin American and continued with design in much the same vein. Several books were published with Penguin and SIgnet logos simultaneously.

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

John Brunner: The productions of time.

Signet 1967.

Amsterdam Valeriusstraat, 1980

Datum eerste afgifte Nederland 9-3-1962

Eduard Hattuma © All rights reserved

Kodak Signet 35 Fujicolor

Front view with field case.

Took this after a lovely dinner before going to see the tattoo.

Back cover of William Faulkner: Pylon.

Signet Books 1958 (4th printing).

Movie tie-in starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone and Jack Carson.

lovely to see them doing so well.

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Thomas Wolfe - Look Homeward, Angel, Signet 1948

Knock on Any Door by Willard Motley. 1950.

1st Printing. Cover by James Avati.

Top view, showing the light meter (maxed out in bright Iowa afternoon sunshine). ISO range goes from 10 to 400, shutter speeds from 4 to 250. Focus range from 2.5 feet to infinity, marked in feet and grouped into three focus zones (close-up, groups, and scenes) on the lens barrel.

"In August 1948, once communist power had been consolidated in Romania, Sighet prison was reserved for political opponents of the regime. At first, it held a group of students, pupils and peasants from the Maramureş region. Many of the surviving prisoners are still living in Sighet to this very day." (from Wikipedia)

 

Sighetu Marmației - Maramureș.

Alberto Moravia: Two adolescents.

Signet 1957 (third printing).

Original title: Agostino. Translated from the Italian by Beryl de Zoete.

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Egyptian, Dynasty 18

Horizontal ring: Reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1336 BC

Vertical ring: Reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BC

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

Valiant Signet: Brave swan.

 

Actually, the Plymouth Valiant was kind of like a Signet Swan in that during the course of its life, it transformed from a slightly gawky compact to one of Detroit's most solid compact offerings at the end of its run for model year 1976. The Valiant was probably one of few bright spots for Chrysler during the 1970's.

 

My dad owned a 1971 Plymouth Duster, a Valiant variant - still my favorite of all the cars my family owned during my lifetime.

Kodak Ektar 44mm f/3.5 - a 4 element, 3 group Tessar design on the Kodak Signet 35 camera

Walter Diethelm

ABC Verlag, Zurich

1972, 2nd Edition

The Assistant by Bernard Malamud. 1958. Cover by Hofmann.

Eugene O'Neill: Desire under the elms.

Signet Books 1958.

Movie tie-in starring Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins and Burl Ives.

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