Pocket Kodak

Format

102 daylight cartridge, 12 exposures, or a single glass plate

System

Kodak Pocket (1895 box)

Shutter

sector, set and released by one lever - Kodak names it only as "simplicity itself"

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

*** THE NAME COLLISION THIS CATALOGUE HAS BEEN CARRYING SINCE SLICE 7 FINALLY COMES DUE, AND THE ROW IS NAMED TO DEFUSE IT. *** This is the 1895 BOX camera. A completely unrelated family of 1920s 'Pocket Kodak' FOLDERS - No. 1, No. 1A, No. 2C, No. 3A and their Series II, Junior and Special variants - is already in this catalogue and descends from the Folding Pocket Kodak of 1897. THE TELL: this box carries NO SIZE NUMBER and no bellows, makes a 1-1/2 x 2 in picture on 102 film and weighs five to six ounces; every folder carries a size number, has a bellows and a bed or self-erecting front, and takes 120, 116, 122 or 130. *** THIS ROW EXISTS BECAUSE THE ADVERSARIAL PASS OVERTURNED A SIX-INTO-ONE FOLD. *** The research brief collapsed all six AA-13 Pocket Kodak lines into one row on the ground that Kodak states only one hardware change in six catalogue years. The adversary found the change is TWO, and found it by CONTRASTIVE SILENCE INSIDE A SINGLE VOLUME: the 1896 catalogue names the improved rotary shutter on the No. 2 Bulls-Eye, the No. 4 Bulls-Eye and the No. 2 Bullet on facing pages, and pointedly does not name it here, saying only 'The shutter is simplicity itself' with no stops. By 1897 this camera has 'improved rotary shutter and set of three stops for lens'. That the club is real and not loose prose is proved by Kodak itself in 1898, in the Eureka Jr. entry: 'The shutter is our improved rotary, such as we use on the Pocket Kodak, the Bullet and the Bulls-Eye Kodaks' - an explicit enumeration this camera is absent from in 1896 and present in by 1898. Shutter plus lens is two dimensions. CONFIDENCE IS MEDIUM: the 1895 original's specification is in NO Kodak catalogue - all three 1895 volumes lack it - so this row is built from the 1896 text with 1895 inferred. WEIGHT IS NOT RECORDED AND IS NOT A BODY SIGNAL HERE: Kodak prints 5 oz in 1896 and 1897 US, 6 oz from 1898, and 'weight loaded only 7 ounces' in the 1897 UK volume - three figures for one camera, a loaded/unloaded convention rather than hardware. 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. Values resting on VULGAR FRACTIONS are treated as unreliable throughout: 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; 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, fixed focus, 2-1/2 in focus; NO adjustable stops

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

1-1/2 x 2 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1895