Discontinued
Kfilm camera
No. 4 Folding Pocket Kodak
Format
123
System
Kodak Folding Pocket
Is Film
Yes
Shutter
F.P.K. Automatic, Kodak Automatic, Volute or Compound
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 1907–1915 · 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-4-folding-pocket-kodak spec_notes.
Category: Film Camera
Format
123
System
Kodak Folding Pocket
Shutter
F.P.K. Automatic, Kodak Automatic, Volute or Compound
Metering
none
Spec Notes
The largest of the line, on 123 film. Kodak's 1913 catalogue adds a Compound shutter with a Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3 at $63.00 - the dearest rung in the whole Folding Pocket family. 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
Rapid Rectilinear f/8, B&L Plastigmat, B&L Zeiss Tessar, Cooke Anastigmat, or Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat f/6.3
Rangefinder
No
Alternate Names
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Introduced
1907
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