No. 2 Eureka Camera

Format

glass plates; roll film only by adding a separately-priced Cartridge Roll Holder

System

Kodak Eureka

Shutter

Eastman improved rotary, snapshot and time

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

*** AA-13'S FILM COLUMN IS WRONG ABOUT THIS CAMERA AND BUILDING FROM IT WOULD HAVE INVERTED WHAT IT IS. *** AA-13 lists it as '106 with roll holder'. Kodak's own heading is 'No.2 EUREKA CAMERA. FOR GLASS PLATES.' with the sub-line 'Can be used with Film by addition of Cartridge Roll Holder', and the camera ships 'with Achromatic lens and one double plate holder, $4 00' while THE ROLL HOLDER IS A $5.00 ACCESSORY ON A $4.00 CAMERA. This is the Glass Plate trap of slice 9a running backwards, caught by the same instrument - read the maker's own heading. *** THE JUNIOR FOLDS, AND THE ADVERSARIAL PASS OVERTURNED A SPLIT TO GET HERE. *** The research brief split it at two dimensions, film loading and body. Both legs failed: no Kodak sentence says the Junior cannot take the roll holder, so that leg is NOT SOURCED rather than established; and the body difference is a single plate holder instead of a double - plate CAPACITY, which is on the excluded list - with the shorter box entailed by it. Kodak's own Junior entry gives the same rotary shutter and the same three stops as the parent, in the sentence that names the shutter club: 'The shutter is our improved rotary, such as we use on the Pocket Kodak, the Bullet and the Bulls-Eye Kodaks.' Zero dimensions counting cleanly. Kodak's Eureka copy also reuses the jab found in slice 9a: 'no clumsy attempts at making it a magazine camera'. 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, set of three stops, 4-1/2 in focus

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

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

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1898