Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Eastman View Camera No. 1 Variation 2
Premo Cameras, Rochester Optical
Division, Eastman Kodak Co., 1920,
p. 24
Eastman View No. 1
Variation 2 8x10
Date Introduced:
?;
Years Manufactured:
c.1920-c.1926
Previous to 1914,
this camera appeared in Premo Cameras catalogs as the
Empire State
(Variation 3). It was renamed in the 1914 catalog, but is
apparently the same camera, even to the extent that the bed is made
rigid in this camera via a thumbscrew, whereas the bed of the
contemporaneous
Eastman View No. 2 is made rigid by a quick-connector. The
Eastman View No. 1 disappeared from
the Eastman
Professional Catalog between 1925 and 1929.
There are two variations: Eastman View No. 1
Variation 1 has its rise rack and pinion behind the
front standard, and has u-shape-profile flippers securing the lens
board. Eastman
View No. 1 Variation 2 has its rise rack and pinion next
to the front standard, and has flat flippers securing the lens board.
References:
Construction: front and rear focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails);
double swing; reversing by removable back; three-piece lens board
Materials: mahogany wood body; cherry base;
black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 5x7, 6 ½x8 ½, 8x10
Notes:
Eastman Professional Photographic Apparatus and
Materials 1920, Eastman
Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), pp. 34-35
Premo Cameras 1920, Rochester Optical
Department, Eastman Kodak Co., 1920,
pp. 24-25
Premo
Cameras 1922, Rochester Optical Department, Eastman Kodak Co.,
1922, pp. 24-25
Eastman Professional Catalogue of
Photographic Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), 1923, p. 28
Catalogue No. 21 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and Photographic Accessories
1923-1924,
Central Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), dated 1923-1924, p.43
Eastman Professional Catalogue
of Photographic Apparatus and Materials,
Eastman Kodak Co.
(Rochester, NY), 1925, p. 23
Catalogue No. 27 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and
Photographic Accessories 1925-1926, Central
Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1925, p. 58
Catalogue No. 31 of Cameras, Kodaks, Lenses and
Photographic Accessories 1926-1927, Central
Camera Co. (Chicago, IL), 1926, p. 68
