No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak Model F camera
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1909 - 1911
Materials
Wood, Leather, Nickel plate, Brass, Glass, Bakelite, Metal, Canvas
Measurements
Camera closed 190 x 112 x 45mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524458.1
Summary
A No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak Model F camera, folding roll-film camera, 1909-11.Fitted with Rapid Rectinilinear Lens by Bausch & Lomb Optical Co. The camera is wooden covered with black leather and leather hand strap, with nickel plated details including rotating brilliant finder with spirit level, brass manufacturers plate engraved with "T.B 2550100 EKCo Ball Bearing patents pending" by shutter. Rack and pinion focussing.The bellows are red leather. On metal back casing is engraved details of manufacturers patents. Next to this handwritten in pencil "No 118 film". Empty wooden spools. Small section of leather is missing near stand on outer casing.
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Eastman Kodak Co , manufacturer