No. 2 Bulls-Eye Special Kodak

Format

101 daylight cartridge - NO plate option

System

Kodak Bulls-Eye

Shutter

Eastman pneumatic with finger release, later named Eastman Triple Action - three instantaneous speeds

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

Two dimensions from the plain No. 2 Bulls-Eye - a rapid rectilinear with an iris diaphragm in place of the achromatic with three stops, and the pneumatic three-speed shutter in place of the rotary. NO PLATE OPTION, corroborated explicitly: 'Unlike [the Bullet Special], it does not have an option to accept glass plates.' Fine black Morocco with nickelled fittings, square finder. 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

Rapid Rectilinear, fixed focus 5 in (5-1/8 in from 1901), iris diaphragm

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

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

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1898