No. 2C Kodak Series III

Format

130 roll film

System

Kodak Series III

Shutter

Diomatic, 1/10 1/25 1/50 1/100 T B

Focusing

"Adjustable, with lever focusing device" - and it KEEPS the lever where the 1A loses it: "lever focusing device on Nos. 3 and 2C" (1931)

Metering

none

Spec Notes

*** THE SPLIT FROM THE No. 1A SERIES III IS NOT FORMAT ALONE, AND THIS OVERTURNS THE RESEARCH BRIEF, WHICH PROPOSED KEEPING THE ROW ON CATALOGUE CONVENTION RATHER THAN ON A DIMENSION COUNT. *** Kodak's 1924 catalogue does say the two are 'identical in finish and equipment', but KODAK ITSELF BROKE THAT IDENTITY BY 1927 and re-paired the four Series III sizes along the FOCUSING line rather than the size line: 1927 page 15, 'Nos. 1 and 1A ... Focus: Adjustable; screw focusing device'; 1927 page 17, 'Nos. 3 and 2C ... Focus: Adjustable, with lever focusing device'. The 1931 catalogue repeats it verbatim. SCREW AGAINST LEVER IS A FOCUSING MECHANISM DIFFERENCE, STABLE ACROSS TWO INDEPENDENT CATALOGUE YEARS, and with format that is two dimensions with trivial assignability - the film size names the model. A third, weaker signal in 1931: the 1A takes f/5.6 at $32.00 while this camera takes f/6.3 at $35.00. AGAINST THE SERIES II this row clears on format alone plus focusing, since no Series II exists in 130. CONFLICT RECORDED, NOT RESOLVED: AA-13 ends this camera in 1931, but the undated catalogue that follows the 1931 volume still lists it, in a block headed 'Nos. 2c and 3 Kodaks, Series III'. historiccamera was used for NOTHING load-bearing. Datasheet 696 was confirmed uncited this slice and its text is verbatim laundered AA-13; datasheets 580 and 567 likewise list no references at all. Sixth, seventh and eighth occurrences of the pattern. SOURCE-HANDLING: the WebFetch relay fabricates when led, proven five times in this build. 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. One relay bleed WAS caught in this slice - asked about the 1913 Six-Three page it returned 'rack and pinion' and 'rising and sliding fronts', both of which are printed on the SPECIAL pages two pages earlier. That read was discarded and the isolated re-read returned the correct answer. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are unreliable: these scans return different fractions on repeat reads of the same page. Every row-shape call in this slice was decided on prose, on a model name, on a shutter name, on a SPEED COUNT, on an integer or on a dollar figure. Where a catalogue fraction and a museum specimen disagree the specimen is preferred and the conflict is recorded. NO PRICE IS RECORDED. 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 shelf contradicts AA-13 the conflict is recorded on the row and NOT resolved. DATING: NO SCHEME EXISTS. No serial-to-year mapping and no date code was ever published for any Kodak of this era. Specimen serials are recorded for provenance only and are NOT decodable - and note they are not even a consistent KIND of number: the four published Series III figures mix a camera body serial (No. 3 Series III, 20021), lens serials (No. 1 Series III, 9080; No. 3 Series III, 104717) and an autographic-back serial (13327). Four numbers across two models spanning three orders of magnitude. DO NOT BUILD A DECODER.

Fitted Lens

Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7 (1924), f/6.3 from 1927, f/6.3 and f/5.6 by 1931

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

2-5/8 x 4-5/8 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1924