Kodak Premoette Junior No 1 Folding Camera
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1913
Materials
Metal, Leather, Glass
Measurements
Camera Closed 125 x 73 x 35 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524810.1
Summary
Kodak Premoette Junior No 1 Folding Camera. 2 ¼" x 3 ¼" exposures on film packs. Metal body with black leather cover and handle. Black leather tapered bellows. Meniscus lens, iris diaphragm scaled 1 - 4 Shutter- Ball Bearing, three-blade leaf type, speeds 1/25, 1/50, B, T. Brilliant viewfinder on top of standard, which rotates. Tripod bush on base and side of body. Makings - On top of handle stamped "Premoette". On hinged back plate engraved "Kodak Premoette Junior No 1, July 8 1913. Eastman Kodak, Patent date Nov 10 1903, May 8 1913. Serial No 83045". Instructions on use on a side plate on camera base " Use front slot for objects 6-20 feet away - use back slot for further than 20 feet".
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