By the early 1930s, autographic film was discontinued by Kodak.
The advantage of the rotating shutter blades is that the overall amount of movement of each blade is minimized allowing it to open and close quicker. George Eastman’s philosophy was to put a camera in the hands of anyone who wanted them. 1A Pocket Kodak was a folding camera. The shots in the top row of the gallery are all pretty spot on, but everything after that isn’t. I am just going to hope that this was user error, and I didn’t pay close enough attention to my lighting. On the film supply carrier the last Pat. The fact that this camera uses 120 film without any special adapters alone is enough reason to favor this one.
Still, $45 in 1915 translates to $1,054 in 2015 dollars.
Its worth noting that when the Model A Autographic Special was discontinued in 1920, the Model B that replaced it did not have the Bakelite sides.Finally, one last really cool design element of this camera that deserves it’s own explanation is in how the film loads. He had the idea that if he could build and sell inexpensive cameras to lots of people, that Kodak stood to make much more profit by recurring purchases of film. Including shipping, I paid $27.88 for this camera.The earliest Kodak cameras were box cameras similar to the Brownies of the early 1900s. Your review is excellent and has renewed my interest in getting it open.But when you step back to a folding camera like this that takes 6cm x 9cm exposures, you only get 8 per roll, and the pressure to only release the shutter for the perfect moment is even greater.What worries me is that all 4 of the underexposed shots were the last 4 of the roll. Between 1908 and 1912 the Kodak Company manufactured the 1A Special model.
It wasn’t typical for lenses to have coatings for color photography until after World War II.
I didn’t know that this would be the “gateway” camera into a wonderful hobby of collecting old cameras.Enter your email address to subscribe to Mike Eckman Dot Com and receive notifications of new posts by email.
I honestly cannot remember why I decided to do it. It wasn’t until 1898 that Kodak released the first folding camera to use roll film. Several other variations were offered until this model was replaced in 1921 by the Model B which had several significant changes, including a new shutter, body design, and different lenses. If you fire the shutter at a slow speed on almost any mechanical camera made in the 20th century, you can hear the governor grinding away like the sound of a clock being unwound. In the review, I show an image of the back of the camera. Autographic film had two layers of paper backing instead of the conventional single layer.
1 Pocket Kodak (colors) 1926 - 1931 No. 1, 1A Folding Pocket Kodak 1900's, 1910's. Of the ones that had more than 2 speeds, very few of them could reliably fire at anything less than 1/25th of a second. 6×9/6×11/6×14 isn’t a cheap format! In addition to the excellent shutter and lenses offered on the Special, the body of the camera was made out of aluminum and brass covered in a deeply textured seal skin leather. 1 used 120 film and the Pocket No.
If its in good shape, you should be very pleased with the images it makes. The viewfinder was large and bright for its day and folds to the side for portrait or landscape photos. Like all my reviews on this site, I will continue to update this post when I have some more experience with this camera, but for now, here are the results of my first test roll.I was very pleased that once I selected other speeds, the shutter fired properly. Occasionally one would come up for sale, but usually when a seller knows what they have, they ask an appropriately high price for it.I have one of these cameras, but I cannot get the front of the thing to open. After World War I started, the “Zeiss” label was no longer used, and later designs are labeled with the name Bausch & Lomb on the face of the lens plate.So as of this writing, I have only shot one roll, and sadly I got some mixed results.
The seller’s description was only one line and he said that the shutter didn’t appear to work. When the film was developed, you would see the message along the margin of the photograph. I had no idea that it took 116 film, which hadn’t been produced since the mid 1980s. 1-A Autographic Kodak Jr. Eastman Folding Cartridge Camera, c1915, case NO. It will take me some time to find an opportunity to shoot a roll in this camera, but I am very much looking forward to getting some film developed from it.One day, I found a camera listed simply as a “kodak autographic No. The original box is in great shape and you can still clearly make out the name of the camera embossed into the box. For one, it’s the oldest camera in my collection, and the desire to keep it in as good of shape as possible is greater, but also, I tend to impose a lot of pressure on myself to only shoot with the camera when I have something interesting to shoot. I had the camera set to 100′ focus distance and an aperture of f/16. C $95.01.
He felt that photography shouldn’t be reserved only for the elite.