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[Photographic Study Capturing The Motion Of Water Being Emptied From A Bucket]

c1910s. Vintage silver gelatin photograph, postcard format with “Austral Kodak” branding, annotated in pencil verso, 8.7 x 13.8cm. Minor chips to edges.

Annotation reads “1000th of a second.” This photograph is one of the earlier examples taken with a shutter speed of 1/1000 of a second. Shutter speeds like this became possible after 1908, when Kodak marketed the No. 4A Speed Kodak, a “specialist camera for the professional or serious amateur photographer, offering shutter speeds from 1/5 to 1/1000 of a second.”

In 1907 the Australian company, Baker and Rouse Pty Ltd, merged with Eastman Kodak and in 1908, Australian Kodak Limited was formed. Austral Kodak photographic paper was produced at their Australasia factory in Abbotsford, Victoria, which was still operating at that site until the late 1950s. Ref: Museums Victoria (Item MM 98557); Flashofdarkness.com.

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Item #CL207-12

Price (AUD): $990.00  other currencies