Vintage 127 roll film cameras.

127 roll film was introduced by Kodak in 1912 in conjunction with the Vest Pocket Kodak, often simply referred to as the VPK. The objective was to make a camera that was a good deal smaller than its contemporaries, one that would fit in a vest pocket. The size caught on readily and many manufacturers started to make cameras that would take this size film. Owing to the smallish negative, the cameras needed to be reasonably refined to get the best from the film, this results in some very nice design choices and many gems amongst them. The VPK used the film to produce just 8 pictures on the roll, as this was the same as you would get with a roll of 120 in the common 6 x 9cm format, this wasn't a disadvantage. Over time cameras evolved to use the film in 4 x 4 cm which would give the user 16 square pictures per roll, but the film was used in different formats throughout its production run. Kodak stopped making 127 in 1995, but it hangs on - just, albeit in small, and expensive supplies.

We listed the 127 cameras as a collection as the film spawned some fine, interesting and sometimes quirky designs.

Those in the LICM collection are listed here in date order, starting with the oldest.