No 4 Folding Kodak (Improved model)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Eastman Kodak Company
NATIONALITY: American
PLACE MANUFACTURED: US, NY, Rochester
INTRODUCTION DATE: 1893
PRODUCTION DATES: 1893-1897
FILM TYPE: rollfilm
IMAGE SIZE: 4 x 5
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: Folding
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: B&L Universal
INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "Box shaped leather covered case with hinged lid giving access to
  Eastman-Walker rollholder. 1893: Improved model; Bausch & Lomb Iris
  Diaphragm shutter fitted; baseboard hinged to permit drop front
  movement when using wide angle lens; compartment within case for lens
  cells; double swing back and rising and cross front movements on lens
  panel; film wind within case; adapted to take ground glass screen and
  plate holders (older models could be adapted); finder on lens panel.
  1895: Rack and pinion focusing replaced sliding focusing movement;
  improved lens panel and supports, with clamping screw for rising
  front, and cross movement of whole camera front, with locking lever."
  (Coe, B, 1988).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: E130.00492

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Coe, Brian. --Kodak Cameras: The First Hundred Years.-- Hove, East Sussex: Hove Foto Books, 1988. pp. 91.//