Pocket Kodak Model '97

Format

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

System

Kodak Pocket (1895 box)

Shutter

Eastman improved rotary, snapshot and time

Focusing

fixed

Metering

none

Spec Notes

THREE AA-13 LINES FOLD IN HERE AS GENERATIONS AND ONE MORE - Model '96 - BELONGS TO THE EARLIER ROW. Kodak prints no model letter or apostrophe-year in any heading in any of the six years; every volume says 'The Pocket Kodak.' The plate holder is an ACCESSORY and AA-13's '102 & plate' overstates it: Kodak's own words are 'A Plate Holder for glass plates can be provided with each Pocket Kodak, no extra attachment being required' - but it is priced separately at 25c in 1896 and 1897 and 75c in 1898. 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, fixed focus, 2-1/2 in focus, set of three stops

Rangefinder

No

Negative Size

1-1/2 x 2 in

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1897