No. 2 Stereo Kodak

Format

101 roll film - "standard NO. 2 Kodak Cartridges, which may be obtained the world over and may be loaded for one, two, three or six stereoscopic pictures"

System

Kodak Stereo

Shutter

"a modification of our automatic shutter" (1902); "a modified form of the Eastman Automatic Shutter" (1905)

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

A RIGID BOX CAMERA, and that is now a PHYSICAL FACT rather than the simile the research brief rested on. The brief argued from Kodak's 'These instruments may be said to RESEMBLE IN MODEL the well known Bulls-Eye cameras' (1902, repeated 1905) - which was attackable, because Kodak's Bulls-Eye line includes a FOLDING Bulls-Eye, built in slice 9b. Two findings close it. FIRST, A DATED SPECIMEN: SMG co15745 is titled 'No. 2 Stereo Kodak BOX Camera', made 1901, 'Wood body covered in seal grain leather with nickel plated fittings' - bellows no, folding no, bed no. SECOND, KODAK DEFINES ITS OWN REFERENT IN THE SAME VOLUMES: 1905, of the No. 2 Bulls-Eye, 'This instrument is the leader among BOX FORM cameras'; 1903, Nos. 2 and 4 Bulls-Eye and both Specials all box form - and NO Folding Bulls-Eye is listed in the 1902, 1903 or 1905 Bulls-Eye entries at all. Across all three years this camera's entry mentions bellows, bed, folding, rack-and-pinion and rising front ZERO TIMES EACH. THE NEGATIVE SIZE IS WITHHELD BECAUSE KODAK'S OWN YEARS DISAGREE: the 1903 catalogue gives 3-3/4 x 6 and the 1905 gives 3-1/2 x 6 for the same camera. The fraction is in the corrupt class; the INTEGER 6 is stable, as is the capacity statement '6 stereoscopic or twelve single exposures' (1903). A GUESS WOULD BE A FABRICATION. THE LENS SEPARATION - the stereo base - IS NOT SOURCED: Kodak publishes no figure in any catalogue read and no museum record states one. *** THIS CAMERA IS NOT THE ANCESTOR OF THE STEREO KODAK MODEL 1 AND NO LINEAGE LINK EXISTS BETWEEN THEM. *** See that row. Kodak's own 1905 price, $15.00, matches AA-13 exactly - one of the five agreements in this slice, and price decides nothing. SOURCE-HANDLING NOTE FOR THIS SLICE: the WebFetch relay was caught FABRICATING WHEN LED - four times independently, once inventing 'a dial to select the SHUTTER SPEED' to complete a page truncated at 'the only one to have a d', where the real next sentence says the earlier models had a SLIDER to set the FOCUSING DISTANCE. Every reading behind this row was taken with neutral questions, an explicit 'or say not stated' escape hatch, control questions whose answer had to be NO, and a second ask in different wording. THE FILM NUMBER IS AN ATTRIBUTION, NOT A KODAK DESIGNATION ON THIS ROW. Kodak's catalogues of this period name the cartridge by exposure count and picture size - 'N. C. Film Cartridge, 12 exposures (4 x 5)' - not by number. The number reaches this catalogue from AA-13 and from museum records. Kodak DOES print a film number later in the era: the 1927 catalogue and Kodak's own No. 3A Panoram booklet both print 'No. A 122', which is why that one row carries no caveat. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are treated as unreliable: 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, and in this slice the gap is measurable: AA-13 and Kodak's own catalogues agree to the cent for the Panorams ($10.00/$20.00/$40.00), the 3B Quick Focus ($12.00) and the No. 2 Stereo ($15.00), and disagree by a factor of two to three for the Cartridge Kodaks and the No. 4A Folding Kodak. 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. Specimen serials are recorded where a museum photographed one, for provenance only and NOT decodable: No. 4 Panoram Model C 10368 and Model D 12238; No. 4 Screen Focus 2274; 3B Quick Focus 4763K, 9066K and 7899K; Stereo Kodak Model 1 LENS numbers 52570 and 53277; No. 4 Series C Eastman Plate Camera 792. The trailing K on the Quick Focus serials is NOT SOURCED - no decode exists in anything reachable.

Fitted Lens

twin Rapid Rectilinear

Rangefinder

No

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1901