No. 2 Bullet

Format

101 daylight cartridge, 18 exposures - FILM ONLY

System

Kodak Bullet

Shutter

self-setting - Kodak: "One button does it all - sets and releases the shutter"

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

THE ONLY CAMERA IN THE SLICE WITH A ONE-BUTTON SELF-SETTING SHUTTER, and that is what earns it its own row against the Improved: Kodak's 1895 words are 'The Bullet automatic shutter is a feature. One button does it all - sets and releases the shutter.' Three dimensions from the 1896 Improved - shutter, film loading (this camera takes FILM ONLY; the Improved adds glass plates) and body (110 against 121 cubic inches, both integers). It appears in a back section of the 1895 dealer catalogue rather than among the main camera pages, consistent with a late-1895 introduction, and confidence is medium because that single entry is its only Kodak description. THE FILM NUMBER IS NOT KODAK'S OWN. Kodak names no film number for these cameras in any catalogue of the period - it prints only 'N. C. Film Cartridge, 12 exposures'. The numbers 101, 102, 103 and 124 reach this catalogue from AA-13 and from museum records, and are recorded as attributions rather than as Kodak designations. NO PRICE IS RECORDED. AA-13's price column is not a list price; 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, and Kodak's catalogues print no serial anywhere. Kodak DID stamp model letters inside some bodies - The Henry Ford transcribes 'IN ORDERING SUPPLIES FOR THIS CAMERA ALWAYS SPECIFY FOR NO. 2 BULL'S-EYE, MODEL D' - but a supply-ordering label is a marking, not a dating scheme.

Fitted Lens

achromatic, fixed focus

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

3-1/2 x 3-1/2 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1895