B Ordinary Kodak

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Company
FABRICATOR: Brownell, Frank
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Ordinary Kodak Model B
SEE ALSO: B Daylight Kodak
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1891
PRODUCTION DATES: 1891-1895
FILM TYPE: B Ordinary rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 3½ x 4in.
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: $10.00
APPROXIMATE MANUFACTURED QUANTITY: 1900
SERIAL NUMBER RANGE: 20 - 2955
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: daylight loading
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  box
  string-set
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Single meniscus with wheel stops
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Polished natural wood box; reflecting finder; front panel removes for
  aperture setting; exposure counter and automatic lock; string-set
  shutter; fixed focus." (Coe, 1988).
  According to the Kodak camera production book, the demand for Ordinary
  Kodaks was not very large, so 600 B Ordinary cameras were changed into
  B Daylight models.
  Serial number range was derived from known cameras compiled by Don
  Ryan as of August 1984.

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E129.00004
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1068

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Gibson, Dave & Ryon, Don. --Kodak Camera Chronology.-- US, NY, Rochester: UNPUBLISHED, 1984.//
Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. p.25.//