Discontinued
Kfilm camera
No. 3 Autographic Kodak Special
Format
118, 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 in
System
Kodak Autographic Special
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
Optimo, later Kodamatic or Ilex Acme
Metering
none
Research
Kodak AA-13 'History of KODAK Cameras' (model-name strings, market dates, film sizes); Kodak US product catalogues 1900, 1907-1918, 1920-1923, 1926-1931, 1934-35 (Pacific Rim Camera rl/00121 through rl/00156); Kodak instruction books (cameramanuals.org); Science Museum Group / Kodak Museum object records; redbellows.co.uk private census citing Brian Coe; historiccamera.
Produced 1914–1926 · medium confidencehttps://www.pacificrimcamera.com/rl/01541/01541.pdfMARKET DATES, not production - Kodak's AA-13 is headed 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. No price is recorded: AA-13's price column is a top-of-ladder figure, not a list price. See gear_items.kodak-no-3-autographic-kodak-special spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
118, 3-1/4 x 4-1/4 in
System
Kodak Autographic Special
Shutter
Optimo, later Kodamatic or Ilex Acme
Metering
none
Spec Notes
The 118 Special, and the only Special number that never gained a rangefinder. LENS AND SHUTTER ARE AN OPTION LADDER, NOT SEPARATE MODELS. Kodak's own catalogues print one heading and one description per camera with a price table of lens-and-shutter combinations underneath, and AA-13 carries one row per camera rather than one per grade. Same call as the Kodak 35 in slice 6. Where Kodak promoted a grade into the NAME - Special, Junior, Series II, Series III, Model B - it becomes its own row. DATING: NONE EXISTS. No Kodak serial-to-year table was ever published for any pre-1940 body, and the CAMEROSITY lens code runs only from about 1940 and appears on lenses, not bodies. Bodies of this era DO often carry a serial - museum records show 116880 on a 2C Autographic Junior and 15128 on a 3A Autographic Special, and AA-13 itself notes the highest known serial on the 1888 Kodak as 5192 - so the common claim that only the Medalist and Ektra were serialled is wrong. But an observed serial is not a dating input here. Date these by Kodak's own model letters and hardware notes instead: 'collapsing front', 'wood lens mount' against 'metal lens mount', '1917 Model', 'Model B'. NO PRICE IS RECORDED ON THIS ROW, and that is a finding rather than a gap: AA-13's 'ORIGINAL LIST PRICE' column is a TOP-OF-LADDER figure, not a list price. Verified against Kodak's own catalogues on five Autographic Special rows where AA-13 lands exactly on the dearest rung - and for the Folding Pocket rows it matches NO rung in any of eight catalogue years. The column cannot be ingested as a price field. DATES ARE MARKET DATES, NOT PRODUCTION. Kodak's AA-13 heads its columns 'ON THE MARKET FROM / TO'. No Kodak-published production date exists for any camera in this slice.
Fitted Lens
Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3, B&L Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3, or B&L Tessar Series IIb f/6.3
Rangefinder
No
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1914
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