Pocket Kodak - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Pocket Kodak

95 Model

1895

Eastman Kodak Co

Rochester

USA

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Lens:
c.f10, 65 mm, fixed aperture.

Shutter:
Tisdel sector with separate capping plate. Spring powered. Instantaneous and B settings.

Construction:
Black morocco covered wood body.

Format:
12, 1 ½" x 2" exposures on paper backed roll-film.

Focusing:
Fixed.

Attributes:
Reflecting v/f.
Film-advance indicated by red window.
Removable shutter panel. Single lever tensions the shutter by a horizontal movement and releases the shutter by downward pressure.

Identification:
Round v/f.

Notes:
Address: Eastman Photographic Materials Co. Ltd. 115 Oxford St. London. 4 Place Vendome Paris. Marked with patent information: Pat. May 5 1885, Aug 6 1889.

Pocket Kodak

96 Model

1896

Eastman Kodak Co

Rochester

USA

Lens:
c.f10, 65 mm 3 sector stops.

Shutter:
Sector, everset type. Spring powered. Instantaneous and B settings.

Construction:
Black morocco covered wood body.

Format:
12, 1 ½" x 2" exposures on paper backed roll-film.

Focusing:
Fixed.

Attributes:
Reflecting v/f.
Film-advance indicated by red window.

Identification:
Square v/f.

Notes:
Address: Eastman Photographic Materials Co. Ltd. 115 Oxford St. London. 4 Place Vendome Paris. 91 Markgrafen Str. Berlin. Marked with patent information: Pat. May 5 1885, Dec 1 1891.

Pocket Kodak

96 Model

1896

Eastman Kodak Co

Rochester

USA

Lens:
c.f10, 65 mm 3 sector stops.

Shutter:
Sector, everset type. Spring powered. Instantaneous and B settings.

Construction:
Black morocco covered wood body.

Format:
12, 1 ½" x 2" exposures on paper backed roll-film.

Focusing:
Fixed.

Attributes:
Reflecting v/f.
Film-advance indicated by red window.

Identification:
Square v/f.

Notes:
Address: Eastman Photographic Materials Co. Ltd. 115-117 Oxford St. London. 4 Place Vendome Paris. Eastman Kodak Gesellschaft, M. B. H. 91 Markgrafen Str. Berlin. Marked with patent information: Pat. May 5 1885, Dec 1 1891, Jan 2 1897. Retailer's address in case: Ludwig Scharller. Stuttgart.

With:
Case.

Pocket Kodak

96 Model

1896

Eastman Kodak Co

Rochester

USA

Lens:
c.f10, 65 mm 3 sector stops.

Shutter:
Sector, everset type. Spring powered. Instantaneous and B settings.

Construction:
Brown morocco covered wood body.

Format:
12, 1 ½" x 2" exposures on paper backed roll-film.

Focusing:
Fixed.

Attributes:
Reflecting v/f.
Film-advance indicated by red window.

Identification:
Square v/f.

Notes:
Address: Eastman Photographic Materials Co. Ltd. 115-117 Oxford St. London. 4 Place Vendome Paris. Marked with patent information: Pat. May 5 1885, Dec 1 1891. Retailer's address W. Whiteley. 151 Queen's Rd. The leather covering is a distinct brown in colour.

The Pocket Kodak was the first Kodak to use the red window for indicating film-advance.

Two versions of the 95 model exist, in the first the shutter was attached to the removable section of the camera, later the shutter was separately mounted on a removable wooden panel. Both models were available in red or black leather and had round view-finders. The shutter had to be tensioned by hand.

In the 96 model the earlier shutter was replaced by a Kodak Rotary model. The finder was now rectangular. The finish of the 96 was black morocco.

At the back of the camera is a removable panel that could be replaced by a plate holder.

References & Notes:
BP 24269/1896.; Lothrop, Century, p. 72.; Coe, Kodak Cameras, p. 28.

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