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Camera
- Description
- The camera is encased in a black box case. It has red bellows when extended. The case has a small handle on the top with the camera name inscribed.
- Title
- Kodak Folding Brownie No 3A
- Manufacturer
- Kodak
- Category
- TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMMUNICATION
- Sub-Category
- PHOTOGRAPHIC TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT
- Start Date
- 1909
- End Date
- 1915
- Description
- The camera is encased in a black box case. It has red bellows when extended. The case has a small handle on the top with the camera name inscribed.
- History Of Use
- The Kodak Folding Brownie No 3A Camera was launched in 1909 and discontinued in 1915, and during that time over 114,000 were made. The camera produced 3 ¼ x 5 ½ inch “postcard” pictures and used type 124 or 122 film rolls.
The lens that the Folding Brownie No 3A used was either a Meniscus lens or a Rapid Rectilinear Bausch & Lomb f/4 lens. The shutter was the FPK Automatic (from an earlier model), or the Brownie Ball Bearing Shutter with modes B and T plus speeds 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec. and 1/100 sec. The camera was focused by using the bellows, with a pointer over a 6ft to 100ft scale.
- Accession No.
- 2013.24.111
- Model Name or No.
- 3A
- Type of Record
- Museum Artifact
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