Stereo Kodak Model 1

Format

101 roll film

System

Kodak Stereo

Shutter

Stereo Automatic 1917-1918; Stereo No. 2 Ball Bearing with cable release from 1919. Kodak, 1917: "of the double valve automatic type, for retarded speeds"

Focusing

rack and pinion

Metering

none

Spec Notes

A FOLDING BELLOWS CAMERA, from Kodak's own 1920 text: 'tripod socket, rising front, rack and pinion for focusing and black leather bellows'. THE CONFLICT THE BRIEF RECORDED HERE DISSOLVED ON RE-EXAMINATION AND IS CORRECTED: the brief reported that SMG tags this object as a 'Box camera'. IT COULD NOT BE REPRODUCED - record co8691778 lists Photographic Technology, Stereocamera, Rollfilm camera and Camera case, and no box tag, and its own URL slug contains no 'box'. Against it, AA-13 ITSELF PRINTS 'Stereo KODAK, Model 1 Camera (FOLDING)' - the source being catalogued assigns the architecture - and an auction house describes a 1917 example as a folding-bed stereo camera. FOLDING IS SETTLED. THE 1917 START IS T1-CONFIRMED: Kodak's 1917 catalogue prints 'Model 1'. *** KODAK DOES NOT PRESENT THIS AS A SUCCESSOR TO THE No. 2 STEREO KODAK AND NO LINEAGE NODE SHOULD BE CREATED. *** Kodak's 1917 introduction argues the camera from FIRST PRINCIPLES - 'The correct visual effect in a picture can only be obtained by the use of twin lenses, followed by viewing the twin pictures through a stereoscope' - and makes no reference whatever to the No. 2, which had left the catalogue twelve years earlier. Kodak also dropped 'No. 2' and coined 'Model 1'. THE NEGATIVE SIZE IS WITHHELD: the only figure anywhere is historiccamera's 'two exposures sized 3 1/8 x 3 1/8 inches', which is T3, uncited and fractional - the corrupt class. Kodak prints none. THE LENS SEPARATION IS NOT SOURCED. 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. THE FILM NUMBER IS AN ATTRIBUTION, NOT A KODAK DESIGNATION ON THIS ROW. Kodak's catalogues of this period name the cartridge by exposure count and picture size - 'N. C. Film Cartridge, 12 exposures (4 x 5)' - not by number. The number reaches this catalogue from AA-13 and from museum records. Kodak DOES print a film number later in the era: the 1927 catalogue and Kodak's own No. 3A Panoram booklet both print 'No. A 122', which is why that one row carries no caveat. 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.

Fitted Lens

twin Kodak Anastigmat f/7.7, "carefully matched", 130 mm - the focal length is published nowhere by Kodak and comes from the LENSES on SMG object 1990-5036/4751, numbers 52570 and 53277

Rangefinder

No

Alternate Names

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Introduced

1917