No. 4 Bulls-Eye Special Kodak

Format

103 daylight cartridge - NO plate option

System

Kodak Bulls-Eye

Shutter

Eastman Triple Action - three instantaneous speeds, the name already in use for this model in 1898

Focusing

focusing scale

Metering

none

Spec Notes

Three dimensions from the plain No. 4 Bulls-Eye - lens, shutter and FOCUSING, which is the one this camera adds that its No. 2 sibling does not: Kodak prints a 'carefully adjusted focusing scale' where the plain camera is fixed focus. Two finders for vertical and horizontal exposures, two tripod sockets, fine black morocco with nickeled fittings. Note that 'Eastman triple action' is Kodak's name for this model's shutter from 1898, whereas on the Bullet Special the same unit is called an 'Eastman pneumatic' until 1900 - the name, not the shutter, is what changes. 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

Rapid Rectilinear of superior quality, 6-1/2 in focus at f/8, iris diaphragm

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

4 x 5 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1898