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Author Message   John_shriver Tinkerer Username: John_shriver Post Number: 45 Registered: 12-2006 Rating: N/A Votes: 0 Posted on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 07:42 pm:    You will find that most post-war Monitors had shutters with flash sync. That's when flashbulbs got popular for photo hobbyists. If the shutter is a No. 1 Kodamatic, the lens is a 103mm f/4.5 Kodak Anastigmat, and it's likely pre-war. If the shutter is a Flash Kodamatic, the lens is a 105mm f/4.5 Kodak Anastigmat, and the camera is definitely post-war. Those are the "cheap" models of the Monitor. The much cheaper lenses were only used on the contemporaneous Vigilant models. The "Special" lens on the expensive models used more exotic rare-earth glasses, and is probably a bit better, but both are very fine Tessar formula lenses.