No. 2 Folding Bulls-Eye

Format

101 daylight cartridge, 12 exposures

System

Kodak Bulls-Eye

Shutter

Eastman improved rotary, snapshot and time

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

*** THIS ROW EXISTS BECAUSE THE OWNER RATIFIED A NEW RULE ON 2026-08-29: BODY ARCHITECTURE - A RIGID BOX AGAINST A FOLDING BELLOWS - IS ITS OWN DIMENSION. *** Everything else about this camera matches the box Bulls-Eye: same 101 film, same square format, same achromatic lens with three stops, same improved rotary shutter, same fixed focus. Under a strict reading of the 2+ rule it would have folded into the box at one dimension, which is what the research brief proposed - a folding camera living inside a box camera's row. The rule was ratified rather than the row argued for, and it validates two calls already published in slice 9a. Kodak sells the difference on exactly this point: 'Being but 1-1/4 inches in thickness when closed is very convenient to carry. Will go in an ordinary overcoat pocket' - 15 ounces against the box's 24. Its focal length reads 4-1/2 against the box's 4-3/4, which would have been a second dimension, but both are vulgar fractions and the 1899 box figure transcribes as the impossible '476 inches', so it is not counted. 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. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are treated as unreliable throughout: 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; 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, 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

1899