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One, Two, Done: Kodak's Reflex TLR Camera

This is the Kodak Reflex, a genuine twin lens reflex camera manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1946 to 1948. It makes twelve 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" (6 x 6cm) images on 620 roll film. The Reflex was superseded by the Reflex II with minor changes from 1948-49.  Kodak isn't normally a company we associate with TLR cameras. Indeed this camera, and its successor the Reflex II, are the only true TLR cameras that Kodak ever manufactured. They also made pseudo-TLR cameras, such as the Brownie Reflex  or Brownie Starflex , but these are simple box cameras with oversized reflective finders, not cameras with a focusing screen.  The modern twin lens reflex camera (a camera with two lenses, one used for focusing on a screen and one for taking the image) owes much of its origins to  Franke & Heidecke in Germany, who developed the design we are familiar with today. Most twin lens reflex cameras following the Rolleiflex model take twelve  2 1/4" x 2 1/4" images, have