FILM STARS Winning Medalist
The American-made Kodak Medalist is a brute of a camera: big, brash and built like a tank. Launched in 1941, the year America entered the Second World War, it was initially issued to American troops, who used it primarily for colour photography. After the war, the Medalist found its way into civilian life where, for a while, it was enthusiastically taken up by amateur and professional photographers.
Today, Medalist cameras and their accessories give film fans an unusual, and versatile, albeit rather heavy, entry into medium format photography, shooting 6x9cm images on 620 roll film. This is basically 120 film wound onto thinner spools. Although discontinued in 1995, 620 can still be found in monochrome and colour negative versions at film specialists like Analogue Wonderland (), or it’s
