Serial Number: Cam0084
Type:
Folding Bed Camera
Manufacturer:
Eastman Kodak Company
Country of Origin:
Rochester, NY, USA
Production Period:
1903 - 1915
Approximate Price:
USD 17.50 - USD 68.00
Reference:
camerapedia.wikia.com
Status: Display
Description:
Eastman Kodak Company, commonly known as Kodak, is an American Technology Company that concentrates on imaging products.
The No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak was a folding bed
camera for making exposures in 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch
postcard format on type No. 122 rollfilm. It was introduced by Kodak in 1903 and made until 1915. Variants were B, B2, B3, B4, B5, C and G. Early variants
were expensive and had for example a combination
of Kodak Automatic shutter and Rapid Rectilinear
lens of Bausch & Lomb. Later, moderately priced
variants got the Ball Bearing Shutter. Both shutters
were still for pneumatic remote operation or release
lever. A glass plate adapter was available for the
camera. A later expensive variant had a compound
shutter with Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat.
“Every detail of design detail of design, material and
workmanship has been worked out with the utmost
care to produce a camera of widest capabilities, yet it
retains the Kodak simplicity, and “Kodak” means,
photography with the bother left out. A feature of the
1909 model is the Kodak Ball Bearing Shutter, in which
we have embobied a new principle in shutter construction. The leaves are in five segments, mounted entirely
on ball bearings, and open in the form of a star, thus,
admitting a much greater amount of light in a given
time than any other between the lens type of shutter” Kodak.
