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La càmara del Titanic / A camera in the Titanic

La Kodak No.3 Folding Pocket és una càmera de rodet de gran format produida per Eastman Kodak entre 1900 i 1915. Emprava el format 118 i fou molt popular, amb gran varietat de sub-models. Aquesta en concret és un model F, equipada amb obturador Bausch & Lomb Automat i objectiu Goerz Doppel-Anastigmat Syntor f.6,8 de 120mm. Data del 1910, pel nº de serie 626xx-R.

 

Aquesta càmara té una "germana gran" en la Kodak No.3A Folding Pocket, lleugerament més llarga. La podeu veure aquí: flic.kr/p/275FvJh

 

Un detall interessant d'aquest model en concret, si no vaig errat, es que es tracta de l'única camara que apareix a bord del Titanic durant el seu únic i fatidic viatge. Es tracta de la fotografia de la familia Odell. El jove Jack Odell porta a les mans el que estic gairebé segur és una No.3 Folding Pocket (la forma corbada a la part superior del aparell el delata). Que aquesta fotografia sobrevivis al enfonsament del Titanic (i tota la familia Odell) s'explica pel fet que embarcaren a Southampton, però desembarcaren a Queenstown (actualment Cobh), Irlanda. Un darrer detall al respecte, va. El fet que porti una lent Goerz indica que aquesta Kodak fou feta als Estats Units, però venguda al Regne Unit. I sabeu d'on em va venir? de Southampton, port de sortida del Titanic!

 

Els Odell al Titanic:

 

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/files/admin/images/odell_fa...

 

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This is the Kodak No.3 Folding Pocket camera, made in Rochester NY from 1900 to 1915 with quite a lot of models. It was a very popular roll film camera, using the 118 format. This one is a model F, made in 1910 (serial nº 626xx-R). It has a Bausch & Lomb Automat leaf shutter and a Goerz Doppel-Anastigmat Syntor lens, f6.8 120mm. Only cameras selled in the UK mounted a Syntor lens.

 

This No.3 camera has a bigger sister, the No.3A Folding Pocket: flic.kr/p/275FvJh

 

I've found a quite interesting link between this camera and the Titanic. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think this is the only camera shown in a picture onboard the Titanic during it's only and dramatic voyage. It appears on the hands of a boy called Jack Odell, and the top-side curve it's the key to identify this camera. Why this picture (and even the Odell family) survived the Titanic? Because they boarded the ship in Southampton, BUT disembaked in Queenstown (now Cobh), Ireland. And even a more closed link. I bought this camera in eBay, to someone in Southampton. Just an "evil" coincidence, I presume...

 

www.historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=a...

 

camera-wiki.org/wiki/No._3_Folding_Pocket_Kodak_Model_F

 

www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C32.html

 

About this camera onboard the Titanic:

 

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/files/admin/images/odell_fa...

 

www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/the-odell-titanic-album.html

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