Antique Kodak cameras
from the late 1880s to the 1910s

No. 5 Folding Kodet


The No. 5 Folding Kodet takes 5 x 7 inch (12,5 x 18 cm) pictures on glass plates or darkroom loaded film in a Kodet rollholder. It's a less expensive alternative for the No. 5 Folding Kodak Improved. The price of the No. 5 Folding Kodet was $ 22 or $ 30, depending on the lens. The price of the No. 5 Folding Kodak Improved was $ 75.
The camera has all kind of settings:

  • the lens has a diaphragm range from f/8 to f/32
  • the shutter can be set on Time, Bulb and Instantaneous and has speeds of 1/4, 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100 of a second
  • the front has rising and sliding movements
  • the back has provision for swing along the vertical axis
  • there is a little reflex finder on the drop bed, but there's also a ground glass. (The back door is missing in the model in the video.)