Kodak 300 Projector, Model I (1958) listed as new in the 1958 Sears Camera Catalog, including new small 300 watt projection lamp and new 4-inch f3.5 Kodak Ektanon projection lens. Used 36 compartment slide magazines. The price in the 1958 Sears Camera Catalog was $61.27 with the Readymatic changer. 1958 is equal to about in 2009 dollars. In 1961 Kodak introduced the Kodak Carousel 550 projector that used new 80 or 140 circular slide trays. The Carousel line would continue until Kodak discontinued the making slide projectors in October 2004. The end of Kodak slide projectors was the result of the surge of digital cameras, computers and digital LCD and DLP projectors. The Kodak 300 projector shows the evolutionary design change towards the Carousel projector including a low profile design and a lens that retracts into the body and fits later Carousel projectors. The Kodak 300 projector was made in Rochester, New York, USA. It came in two colors according to the code on the inside of the cover - turquoise 147917 and black 147918. The projector itself is largely metal construction. The cover is plastic. Mine was purchased at a local garage sale in March 2009. It is in very good operating and cosmetic condition.

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