A Kodak No. 3 Flush Back Model A folding roll-film camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1908
Materials
Leather
Measurements
202 x 120 x 157 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524462.1
Summary
A Kodak No. 3 Flush Back Model A folding roll-film camera. Lens is rapic rectolinear manufactured by Bausch and Lomb. Printed beneath lens: '3F - B.K. Automatic'. 3 Shutter speeds: T, B and I. Uses film 118 The camera is metal covered with black leather with black leather handle and red leather bellows. Rotating brilliant finder with cover and attached spirit level. Manufacturers plate reads: Eastman Kodak Company Rochester NY. USA. Modern camera which can also take a plate. Patent marks on inside of back cover.
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