No 4 Cartridge Kodak folding camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1897 - 1900
Materials
Wood, Leather, Metal, Glass, Plastic
Measurements
(cameral closed)180 x 210 x 85 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524825.1
Summary
No 4 Cartridge Kodak folding camera Model E. Able to use 5" x 4" for exposures on 104 roll-film or exchange to become plate camera. Wooden body covered in black leather and leather handle on top with camera type and manufacturer embossed. Red leather tapered bellows Lens Bausch & Lomb Zeiss Tessar 4 x 5 plasticmat shutter - Kodak Ball-Bearing, speeds 1/25 - 1/100 Two brilliant view-finders on either side of front with to view from above. Film advance indicated by red window, not coupled to shutter. Spool and spool holder inside casing Tripod bush on side and base of main body Markings -- inside wooden casing at back number 4681 stamped. -- on back of plate number 4681 stamped and camera details and munufacturere on plastic insert. -- distance scale on base board on plastic insert -- on top of handle camera type and manufacturer embossed.
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