Almost. And that's what George Eastman wanted you to think - at least early on.

The Bulls-Eye camera (left) was introduced by Samuel Turner and the Boston Camera Manufacturing Company in 1892. It used paper-backed rollfilm and was the first camera to have a red window in the back for viewing and positioning frame numbers.

Eastman at first countered this new threat by copying it - the Eastman Bullet Camera (above, right) made its debut in 1895. Both the Bullet and Bulls-Eye were simple rollfilm cameras taking 3½ x 3½-inch exposures.

Then, Eastman decided he didn't want to continue to pay Turner for using his red-window patent. So he bought Turner's company and acquired the right to manufacture Bulls-Eye cameras. However, since he was already selling similar Bullet cameras, shouldn't he have discontinued one of the lines?

Eastman instead continued each camera line and even expanded each to include larger models and 'Special' models, having Eastman Triple Action Shutters and Bausch & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lenses.

As the story goes, customers were constantly mistaking one camera line for another, and frequently ordered cases and other accessories for the wrong model.

The key difference between the two cameras on this page is that the No. 2 Bullet Camera had a provision for a single plateholder built in. However, the following excerpt from the No. 2 Bulls-Eye instruction manual confirms that even the Bulls-Eye camera could be used with a plateholder: