No. 1A Speed Kodak

Format

116 roll film

System

Kodak Speed

Shutter

Graflex focal plane - "a curtain with a series of slots of varying widths, which, in combination with a speed tension regulator, permits a latitude of exposures"; 24 speeds, 6 tensions x 4 curtain apertures, 1/10 to 1/1000 sec (SMG co8084537)

Focusing

rack and pinion; automatic standard clamp; automatic safety blind. NO rising or sliding front

Metering

none

Spec Notes

Splits from the No. 4A Speed Kodak on FORMAT and SHUTTER - two mechanisms, not two names for one - argued in full on the No. 4A row. A FOLDING BELLOWS CAMERA: SMG titles its record '1A Speed Kodak folding camera'. The focal-length difference from the No. 4A is ENTAILED by the format and is not counted; both lenses are Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3. Kodak's own 1910 text for this camera: 'exposures varying from 1/1000 of a second to very slow instantaneous'. AA-13's 1909 start is confirmed exactly against Kodak's shelf - this camera is absent from the 1908 catalogue and present from 1909 - and unlike its sibling it survives in the 1913 catalogue. FILM ADVANCE AND BACK TYPE: NOT SOURCED. SOURCE-HANDLING NOTE FOR THIS SLICE: the WebFetch relay was caught FABRICATING WHEN LED - four times independently, once inventing 'a dial to select the SHUTTER SPEED' to complete a page truncated at 'the only one to have a d', where the real next sentence says the earlier models had a SLIDER to set the FOCUSING DISTANCE. Every reading behind this row was taken with neutral questions, an explicit 'or say not stated' escape hatch, control questions whose answer had to be NO, and a second ask in different wording. THE FILM NUMBER IS AN ATTRIBUTION, NOT A KODAK DESIGNATION ON THIS ROW. Kodak's catalogues of this period name the cartridge by exposure count and picture size - 'N. C. Film Cartridge, 12 exposures (4 x 5)' - not by number. The number reaches this catalogue from AA-13 and from museum records. Kodak DOES print a film number later in the era: the 1927 catalogue and Kodak's own No. 3A Panoram booklet both print 'No. A 122', which is why that one row carries no caveat. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are treated as unreliable: these scans return different fractions on repeat reads of the same page while prose, model names, shutter names, dollar figures and INTEGERS stay stable. EVERY row-shape call in this slice was decided on an integer, on prose, or on a dollar figure. NO PRICE IS RECORDED. AA-13's price column is not a list price, and in this slice the gap is measurable: AA-13 and Kodak's own catalogues agree to the cent for the Panorams ($10.00/$20.00/$40.00), the 3B Quick Focus ($12.00) and the No. 2 Stereo ($15.00), and disagree by a factor of two to three for the Cartridge Kodaks and the No. 4A Folding Kodak. Where a figure decides a row shape it is quoted in these notes instead. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION - AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. Where Kodak's own catalogue presence contradicts AA-13 the conflict is recorded on the row and NOT resolved. DATING: NONE EXISTS. No serial-to-year mapping and no date code was ever published for any Kodak of this era. Specimen serials are recorded where a museum photographed one, for provenance only and NOT decodable: No. 4 Panoram Model C 10368 and Model D 12238; No. 4 Screen Focus 2274; 3B Quick Focus 4763K, 9066K and 7899K; Stereo Kodak Model 1 LENS numbers 52570 and 53277; No. 4 Series C Eastman Plate Camera 792. The trailing K on the Quick Focus serials is NOT SOURCED - no decode exists in anything reachable.

Fitted Lens

Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat No. 2, f/6.3

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

2-1/2 x 4-1/4 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1909