Kodak Cartridge Premo
The Cartridge Premo cameras were simple cardboard-bodied box cameras made by Eastman Kodak in the United States, from about 1916. They take rollfilm (this is what cartridge refers to) rather than the film packs used by the Premo Junior box cameras of around the same time.
The No.00 Cartridge Premo was Kodak's smallest box camera. It measures only 2½×2×3 inches (height×width×depth). It has a simple rotary shutter with a single f/stop, a meniscus lens (behind the shutter) and no viewfinder (there is scarcely room). Instead, the top and one side of the camera have a V shape stamped into the leatherette to show the approximate angle of view.
The Kodak No.00 Cartridge Premo takes a No. 35 rollfilm (unperforated paper backed cine film) which creates a 1¼×1¾ inch negative. The shutter has TIME and INSTANT settings. Kodak produced this little beauty between 1916 and 1922.
There were several larger models:[1]
- The No. 2 Cartridge Premo (2¼×3¼ inch exposures on 120 film).
- The No. 2A Cartridge Premo (2½×4¼ inch on 116 film), as pictured here.
- The No. 2 Cartridge Premo (2⅞×4⅞ inch).
These have portrait and landscape viewfinders.
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p514.
Links
- Cartridge Premo 00 on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
