Serial Number: Cam0095
Type:
Folding Bed Camera
Manufacturer:
Eastman Kodak Company
Country of Origin:
USA
Production Period:
1903 - 1915
Approximate Price:
US Dollars 40.00 - 60.00
Reference:
camerapedia.wikia.com
Status: Display
Description:
Eastman Kodak Co., of Rochester,
New York, is an American film maker and camera
maker. For at least three quarters of the 20th century
it played the dominant role in worldwide photography business
The No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak was a folding bed
camera for making exposures in 3¼×5½ 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
by lever. A glass plate adapter was available for the
camera. A later expensive variant had a Compound
shutter with Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat.
