If you take finger nail clippers and clip off the edges of a 120 spol it will fit in the camera and work. Have fun keep on shooting 👍📸👍

I used this camera with instax film! I just made my room a darkroom and took a sheet of film out of the pack and put it in the duaflex. Then after I took the photo I put it back in the film pack and ran it through the rollers in my Instax Mini 8! It looks amazing! I'll make a video on how to do this.

Really great, comprehensive video. I just got my Mom's old Duraflex IV and this really helped me get ready to shoot it for the first time in 50 years. Thank you!

I just got a Duaflex II from my grandpa's collection and I'm excited to try to use it. Thanks for the video!

David - so here we are in 2021 your video is 5 years old and we are in the tail end of the Pandemic. I have a really fine Excellent++ example of this Duaflex II - Fixed Lens made in England version. Which was my inheritance/family memory of my Gran who was born in 1913 and died in 1999. It is still in it's case and I have several photographs taken by the camera probably around 1966/1967 of me as a baby and other family images. In turn I became a professional photographer and ended up collecting film cameras myself. My knowledge has grown over the years but i have not looked at my family keepsake like I do my own collection. So your video has been incredibly helpful. To think this camera was shooting at 1/30th of a Sec is mad - you are correct sunny days only - but it also demonstrates the latitude of film versus the modern day digital equivalent. Monetary value is low but family heirloom is value is rather special and indeed priceless. I may well try and run a 120 roll through it or even see if I can find an out of date roll. Real Lomo. BTW my heirloom is pristine in comparison to your KZfaq model. Thank you for this video it is so relevant even today. Regards Scott

Thank you for this. I have one in my possesion and was totally daft on how to use it. Those stills you took are beautiful. Again, thanks for sharing.

very nice clear video ! love it been looking into getting one of these for a while

Thank You for making this video! I just found and bought a Kodak Duaflex II at a garage sale for $5. Your video was very helpful in showing how to use and load the film into the camera. Hopefully the one I just got still works, it appears to. All the parts are there. Just need to get the film. Which I did see that B&H seel 620 film for $14.

This was really helpful! I am super excited to start taking pics

Thank you!

Great video! Just picked one of these up at a thrift for $10 never heard of it before but it looked interesting. Learned lots about it from this video! I have the one with the “L” marking instead of bulb, was trying to figure out what it meant so thanks for that

Awesome video! I have the Duaflex II with the focusable Kodar lens. I've never actually tried to use it, it's just sat on my shelf for decoration. I'll have to see if I can get some film!

Nice video. I just got an L model with painted Kodak logo in a rather good shape, straps and tripod shoe included. It's a gift for my father, who has several medium and large format cameras... With luck, he has some 120 rolls around, or he can make his own 620 and have some fun with this... :-) Cheers!

This was so helpful!

Thank you David for putting this out there. Nice seeing the kind of images it can produce, shot a roll of Velvia, life happened, and now labs are no longer developing C6. Nothing important, though saving up for the C6 kit and do it at home (also have a 135 roll Dad shot in the 1980s that some reason didn't get developed). Hopefully keep selling the developer, love the look of Ektachrome (Fuji is pulling out of film so no point falling in love with a film that will soon be gone). Going to slightly disagree, if don't mind? This is a TLR, though not a full TLR with focusing ability which is connected to both the lenses. In the UK, they had a single lens point and shoot with a fake view lens, so strange. Also, not sure a 620 camera can be called a toy, 127 or 135 be less cost. My Great Aunt used hers as an everyday camera until some point ended up in the closet. Then she heard I was interested in photography, pulled it out, packed it on the long trip to see her sister, and gave it to me on arrival. Dad was a Physicist and used it to show me how lenses and cameras worked. Back then, 620 film was no longer sold and the easy days of the internet mentioned how to use 120 film, later, my High School teacher didn't either. Eventually, found out about sanding down the spools, though yes, re-winding be the best option.

Thanks for this posting. I used my Duaflex II 25 years ago and the pictures were cool. I use to shoot 35mm long ago. Going to use my Dualflex Ii again. Needed this info,

I grew up using one of these. After we got a new Instamatic 110 it just sat for the last 45 years, with its flash bulbs and an original Polaroid

Somewhere I have one of these with the adjustable f-stop and flash holder. To use an electronic flash one should be able to rig up an electronic delay circuit fairly cheaply. Some day I hope to get the time to play around with it.

Amazing!

Very nice to have this level of information on such an old camera. I found one at an antique store for $9 and the thing that really drew me to it was the viewfinder. Looks like I got a pretty early one, it just says “Kodak Duaflex Camera, Kodet Lens.” Never planned on using it but after seeing your video I think I’ll give it a “shot.” This thing is almost in mint condition and would probably take some beautiful photos. The only problem I’m having with it right now is that the mirror inside the viewfinder appears dirty/dusty. Is this worth trying to clean? I don’t want to damage it, and honestly I’m not even sure how it got so dirty inside. Thanks again for the video!

Great video

I just got this camera!

Thanks for posting! I picked up a Duaflex IV outfit brand new in the box with a Kodalite. Can’t wait to try it out. I think it may have been used to shoot the one roll of film that came with the camera. This was also left in the box. I’m wondering if it might be worth the effort to have it processed.

You can use 120 backing paper on a 620 spool the Film Photography Podcast has a excellent tutorial on how to do it on there youtube page.

This was the first "real" camera I used as a kid in the late 60s!!!

Flash bulbs might not be made anymore, but you can easily get them in lots of eBay for about 25-50 cents each. I shoot mine with bulbs all the time. The deluxe version of the Duaflex with a focusing lens has a better lens that’s a lot sharper. Some of the cheaper variants do not have the double exposure prevention such as the example in this video. Most do.

I actually recently bought this camera and love it and this video was amazingly helpful! I did get 2 rolls of Kodak 620 film and just wanted to ask if you know where I may be able to get the film sent to for development? Would be so helpful!

Great video! Thanks! How would you recommend cleaning inside? Just bought one today with the Kodar lens

620 Film is also available on Ebay

I just inherited one of these and had no idea where to start... thank you! Would you recommend a 35mm to 620 spool adapter? I’m finding those all over the internet but not sure how I feel about it without hearing a review from someone!

I think I have some of those flash bulbs My father in law had some old cameras, a brownie, duaflex IV ,, and an argus 34 mm.. and a couple of 8 mm movie cameras.

Thanks for this excelent video. Please, what are the shutter speeds ? like.

I guess it depends on the camera, but I’ve been able to sand down the ends of the 120 spools and shoot that in the cameras with no prob. Takes maybe 2-5 mins.

the photos shown around the 3:00 and 3:30 mark seem to be very similar but with a color shift. is that due to a difference in exposure times?

I have film for this camera that doesn't have the numbers in the right place. How many times do you turn the wheel to get it to the next number? Please respond, thanks!

Can you do one of these type of videos for the Argus 40!!

If you wind the film on too far can it wind back? I could not see a number on my camera until no 5 showed through. I am using an Ilford B & W film on a cut down 120 film

This may be a stupid question but I’m trying to move the empty take up spool to the top area and the spool doesn’t fit - do I have to take off the winding knob to fit in the spool?

Can you make a video showing how to adapt it for 35mm film?

So, the video shows everything except how to replace/remove the take up spool. On mine, the tab that inserts into the spool gets in the way of the spool sliding in or out. Any tips on this?

What are the dimensions of the medium format negatives produced by this camera? Thank you!

Great video! Please tell us how to digitize the film. I just bought one for myself! :-)

Others have stated that the 120 backing paper is the same as 620. Pls confirm.

I use to have one of these as a kid and took some great holiday snaps, it was a present from an Uncle who brought it over from America with him. But in 1977 it was lost on an aircrash in Zambia. So I have just purchased one off e-bay for the massive sum of £9.50 plus postage. I can not see a way of uploading a pic on here but mine does not have a tripod screw, where yours seems to have been ripped out, it is just a metal bulge?

could you do a video on assembly? i took mine apart to clean it and i’m not sure how to put the top part back on

Out of curiosity what type of batteries would this camera take? I just got an old broken one to repair from a family member and wanted to know if it was battery operated.

If anyone is here in 2023, The Film Photography Project sells newly made 620 film!

I just got one of this is duaflex iv but I don't know where to get the films??

Do you think you could do a tutorial on the Minolta Autocord?

what's the aperture on that lens?

Donde se consiguen los rollos ?????

I have a camera like this with a leather case, looks like new if you compare to most cameras at this age. The only thing is that the red plastic viewer is gone of some reason and need something to replace it with.

If phot shops advertise developing 120 film will it be a problem to give them 620 film?

Where can I buy a 120 roll?

Now it's can use 120mm flim spool by cutting edge, sending .. that's it. Shot nice vantage/retrospect. No needed to re-spooling..

FPP has 620 re rolled film on custom spools

How do you remove the film from the camera after you've shot it?

Is there one called just a Kodak duaflex with out the II

How many exposures come in 620 film rolls?

You can definitely buy 620 film today. Just got 4 rolls for 50$

Where do you send your pictures to be developed?

b&h sells 620

You do *not* need 620 backing paper. 120 film and backing are identical dimensions; only the spool (and sometimes the printing) differs. Unfortunately, a clipped 120 spool will only work in some 620 cameras; many with spring loaded film carriers like the Duaflex family won't accept the extra length of the 120 (about 1 to 1.5 mm longer due to thicker flanges). For those you must respool -- but you can do so with the original 120 paper, no need to change the paper as well.