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*[http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/item29.htm No. 2 Bulls-Eye] at Museum of the History of Science, Oxford [http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras] | *[http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/item29.htm No. 2 Bulls-Eye] at Museum of the History of Science, Oxford [http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras] | ||
*[http://www.butkus.org/chinon/kodak/kodak_bulls-eye/kodak_bulls-eye.htm manual] at Michael Butkus Jr.'s [http://www.cameramanuals.org] | *[http://www.butkus.org/chinon/kodak/kodak_bulls-eye/kodak_bulls-eye.htm manual] at Michael Butkus Jr.'s [http://www.cameramanuals.org] | ||
Revision as of 06:21, 10 February 2016
The No. 2 Bulls-Eye was introduced in 1892 by the Boston Camera Manufacturing Company. It was the first rollfilm camera with a red window as the exposure number indicator. That was possible since rollfilm was paper-backed. Maybe the red-blindness of early film material was the reason to choose red as the color of that window. Kodak copied the camera as No. 2 Bullet camera in 1895, and paid a patent license fee to the original manufacturer for the red window patent. Later Kodak took over the other camera maker. "Bulls-Eye" became a camera brand of Eastman Kodak.
The No. 2 Bulls-Eye Special was a higher-quality variant of the No. 2. It had a Rapid Rectilinear lens of Bausch & Lomb, an iris diaphragm and a Kodak "Triple action" shutter.
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| No. 2 Bulls-Eye Special in ad of 1898 scanned by Uwe Kulick (Image rights) |
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| Kodak No. 2 Bulls-Eye image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
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| No. 2 Bulls-Eye Model D insert showing Eastman Rotary Shutter c.1900 image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Links
- No. 2 Bulls-Eye at Museum of the History of Science, Oxford [1]
- manual at Michael Butkus Jr.'s [2]
- N°2 Bull's Eye Special camera at The Old Album [3]
- N°2 Bull-Eye at Sylvain Halgand's www.collection-appareils.fr
