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| − | 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 exposure number indicator. That was possible since common black & white film materials were red-blind. 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''' was introduced in 1892 by the [[Boston Camera Manufacturing Company]]. It was the first rollfilm camera with a red window as exposure number indicator. That was possible since common black & white film materials were red-blind and rollfilm was paper-backed. 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. |
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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 exposure number indicator. That was possible since common black & white film materials were red-blind and rollfilm was paper-backed. 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.
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- Bullet vs. Bulls-Eye at BoxCameras.com [1]]
