No. 4 Eureka Camera

Format

glass plates; roll film only by adding a separately-priced Cartridge Roll Holder

System

Kodak Eureka

Shutter

Eastman improved rotary, snapshot and time

Focusing

index scale or ground glass

Metering

none

Spec Notes

Three dimensions from the No. 2 Eureka - format, FOCUSING and body. The focusing leg is Kodak's own boast and it is unusual enough to be worth quoting: this is 'the only camera ... which permits of focusing. It is arranged to focus either by index scale or on the ground glass', where the No. 2 Eureka has none at all. Finders and tripod sockets for both vertical and horizontal exposures; 2 pounds 3 ounces against the No. 2's 18. A DATE CONFLICT REPORTED NOT RESOLVED: AA-13 gives the Eurekas 1898-1901, but all three are ABSENT from Kodak's 1900 and 1901 catalogues - Kodak's own shelf presence is 1898 and 1899 only. 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, set of three stops

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

4 x 5 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1899