No. 4 Bulls-Eye Kodak

Format

103 daylight cartridge, 12 exposures - NO plate option

System

Kodak Bulls-Eye

Shutter

Eastman improved rotary, snapshot and time

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

Two dimensions from the No. 2 Bulls-Eye - format and body. TWO KODAK DOCUMENTS DISAGREE ON THIS CAMERA'S FOCAL LENGTH and neither is picked: the 1898 volume prints 6-7/8 in and the 1902 volume 'an achromatic lens of superior quality and with a focus of 6-1/2 inches'. Present in the 1904 catalogue and ABSENT from the 1905 volume, which corroborates AA-13's 1904 end date from Kodak's own shelf. 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

achromatic of superior quality, fixed focus, 6-1/2 in focus (6-7/8 in per the 1898 volume)

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

4 x 5 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1896