No. 5 Eastman Plate Camera

Format

glass plates

System

Eastman Plate Camera

Focusing

rack and pinion, double extension; sliding rising and cross front, vertical and horizontal swing back, reversible back

Metering

none

Spec Notes

BRAND KODAK, NOT EASTMAN - see the No. 3 row. THIS ROW EXISTS ON FORMAT: 5 x 7 is a different camera, not because 'Series D' means anything. NO LENS AND NO SHUTTER ARE RECORDED - the only specimen record, SMG co8204900 (object 1990-5036/1580), is MISSING both, and no catalogue anywhere lists this camera. A guess would be a fabrication. THE BRIEF'S DATING LINE IS SUPERSEDED: it recorded this size as 'AA-13 only'; SMG co8204900 is a T2 record for it - 7 x 5 in plates, rack-and-pinion double extension, sliding rising and cross front, vertical and horizontal swing back, reversible back, brilliant rotating reflecting finder on the base board. A COLLECTOR CLAIM IS RECORDED AND NOT ADOPTED: one blog says 1902-1904 with only 500 produced, 'the rarest' of the three, which conflicts with AA-13's 1902-1903 and is a single unsourced page. NO T1 EVIDENCE - absent from six Kodak catalogue years. historiccamera datasheets were used for NOTHING load-bearing here. 683 and 684 reproduce AA-13's exact dates, its exact wood-front/metal-front pair and its focusing lock, and cite nothing; 673 and 597 cite nothing either. A laundered copy of the source it appears to corroborate is not corroboration. SOURCE-HANDLING NOTE FOR THIS SLICE: the WebFetch relay was caught FABRICATING WHEN LED - four times independently, once inventing 'a dial to select the SHUTTER SPEED' to complete a page truncated at 'the only one to have a d', where the real next sentence says the earlier models had a SLIDER to set the FOCUSING DISTANCE. Every reading behind this row was taken with neutral questions, an explicit 'or say not stated' escape hatch, control questions whose answer had to be NO, and a second ask in different wording. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are treated as unreliable: these scans return different fractions on repeat reads of the same page while prose, model names, shutter names, dollar figures and INTEGERS stay stable. EVERY row-shape call in this slice was decided on an integer, on prose, or on a dollar figure. NO PRICE IS RECORDED. AA-13's price column is not a list price, and in this slice the gap is measurable: AA-13 and Kodak's own catalogues agree to the cent for the Panorams ($10.00/$20.00/$40.00), the 3B Quick Focus ($12.00) and the No. 2 Stereo ($15.00), and disagree by a factor of two to three for the Cartridge Kodaks and the No. 4A Folding Kodak. 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. Specimen serials are recorded where a museum photographed one, for provenance only and NOT decodable: No. 4 Panoram Model C 10368 and Model D 12238; No. 4 Screen Focus 2274; 3B Quick Focus 4763K, 9066K and 7899K; Stereo Kodak Model 1 LENS numbers 52570 and 53277; No. 4 Series C Eastman Plate Camera 792. The trailing K on the Quick Focus serials is NOT SOURCED - no decode exists in anything reachable.

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

5 x 7 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1902