Desktop Background Images - Antique Cameras


These images are intended to be used as desktop background images. Just use your WWW brower to save the images you like onto your hard disk and then install your favourite one as your desktop background image.

The images on this page are taken from a 1923 Kodak Catalog. Click here for more pages from the catalog. Click here to get to the top of this set of background image pages.

Some notes are probably in order:

  1. Except as noted, none of the images are distorted (i.e. if your pixels are square then you're seeing the image in the correct aspect ratio).
  2. These arrangements of these images are Copyright © 2000 Daniel Boulet. All rights reserved. Permission is granted to use these images in any context as long as the copyright notice on each image is intact and visible. The original images are (presumably) Copyright © 1923 Kodak Canada.
  3. The 1280x1024 images aren't quite the same as the other sizes due to the obvious fact that 1280x1024 is a 5x4 aspect ratio whereas the others are 4x3.

If you use any of these images for commercial purposes or display them on your WWW site, please include a reference back to http://www.bouletfermat.com/backgrounds/.
Here's an 800x600 image of a Kodak No. 2 Folding Autographic Brownie. The term "autographic" refers to the small slot on the back of the camera that lets you write notes on the film's paper backing. The slot is covered by a door which is kept closed by a metal stylus (very similar in size to the stylus that comes with a Palm personal organizer).

The 1024x768 version is here.
The 1280x1024 version is here.
The 1600x1200 version is here.



Here's an 800x600 image of a No. 2C Autographic Kodak Junior. The No. 3A is slightly larger but otherwise identical in appearance. Consequently, they used a single image of a 2C to illustrate the 2C and 3A page of the catalog.

The 1024x768 version is here.
The 1280x1024 version is here.
The 1600x1200 version is here.






Here's an 800x600 image of the two pages describing the Nos. 2C and 3A Autographic Kodak Juniors. This is a grayscale image which reduces but, unfortunately, doesn't eliminate the stains on these pages of my 1923 Kodak Canada Catalog. The No. 3A is slightly larger but otherwise identical in appearance.

The 1024x768 version is here.
The 1280x960 version is here (it wasn't feasible to make a 1280x1024 version).
The 1600x1200 version is here.



Here's an 800x600 image of the front door of my Kodak 3A Junior.

Take a close look at the 2C in the previous image. Do you see the little leg in the lower right that supports the front of the camera when it is opened and placed on a flat surface? The rather ornate "Kodak" logo in this image is this little leg in the folded up position. The concentric circles in the top left corner of the image is the 1/4" tripod screw hole.

Here's a tidbit of sorts - the tripod screw hole on a modern camera is EXACTLY the same thread as the tripod screw on this camera. Compare the longevity of this standard to modern "standards" in the computing industry which seem to change with each new product release.

The 1024x768 version is here.
The 1280x1024 version is here.
The 1600x1200 version is here.




Here's an 800x600 image of the leather on my Kodak 3A Junior. I think that it makes an interesting background image!

The 1024x768 version is here.
The 1280x1024 version is here.
The 1600x1200 version is here.



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