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.)