No. 2 Falcon Kodak

Format

101 daylight cartridge

System

Kodak Falcon / Flexo

Shutter

safety shutter (Falcon); Eastman improved rotary (Flexo)

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

ONE ROW FROM TWO AA-13 LINES, AND IT IS NOT A PURE RENAME - Kodak's shutter name genuinely changes, and the word 'rotary' appears nowhere in the Falcon section of either the 1898 or the 1899 volume. That the safety shutter really was a different unit is argued by the same contrastive silence that split the Pocket Kodak: the 1898 catalogue enumerates the improved rotary as used 'on the Pocket Kodak, the Bullet and the Bulls-Eye Kodaks' and the Falcon is not on that list. But one dimension does not earn a row. THE ADVERSARIAL PASS LOOKED HARD FOR A SECOND DIFFERENCE AND FOUND NONE: consecutive volumes give the same 4-1/2 in focus, the same 19 ounces, the same 3-1/2 x 3-1/2 format, the same $5.00 not loaded, and the body sentence is VERBATIM IDENTICAL across the rename - 'Well made, covered with grain leather and handsomely finished.' Two dimensions from the box Bulls-Eye keep this row separate from it: a single achromatic of 4-1/2 in against the Bulls-Eye's meniscus achromatic of 4-3/4 in, distinguished by an internal OCR control within the single 1900 volume, and 19 ounces against 24 at nearly the same volume - a lighter, cheaper box at $5.00 against $8.00. DATE CONFLICT REPORTED NOT RESOLVED: AA-13 gives the Flexo 1899-1913 while Kodak's own catalogues show it 1900-1912, and gives the Falcon from 1897 while Kodak's catalogues show it only from 1898. THE ONE ROUTE THAT WOULD REVERSE THIS FOLD is the Flexo's cubic-inch figure - the 1899 Falcon prints '= 116 cubic inches' and the 1900 Flexo entry prints none. That is COULD NOT RETRIEVE, not not-sourced; a 1901 or 1902 Flexo entry may close it. 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

single achromatic, fixed focus, 4-1/2 in focus, set of three stops

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

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

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1897