FILMPLATE PREMO
All that we have just said of the Pocket Premo C is equally true of the Filmplate Premo, but this model has even greater capabilities. Like the Pocket Premo C it takes films or plates with equal facility, but it is fully equipped for more serious and more particular work.
It has a rack and pinion for focusing, rising and sliding front and swing bed. These latter features are of great importance in making pictures of high buildings, mountains, and the like, for they enable the user to decrease his foreground without tipping the camera proper, which causes an untrue convergence of lines toward the top of the picture.
The shutter is the Kodak Automatic, which works with bulb or finger release for time, bulb, instantaneous and retarded speeds of from 1 second to 1/100 second. It is also supplied with Kodak Autotime Scale. Under every possible outdoor light condition this scale shows at a glance just where to set diaphragm and speed lever to get properly timed exposures. The lens is the Planatograph, the best obtainable aside from the anastigmats, and each lens is carefully tested before and after being fitted to the camera.
With accurate focusing scale and brilliant finder, the Filmplate Premo is a splendid snap shot instrument. Whereas, for particular work, the ground glass is instantly available for composition or focusing, whether films or plates are being used.
With all these advantages there is nothing bulky or cumbersome or complicated about the Filmplate Premo. It is as compact and as easily carried as the average camera for films alone. It is so simple to understand and operate that anyone who can read the instructions which come with the camera can at once start in to make good pictures, without any trouble at all.
The 3A size is especially suitable for post card work, for bust and full length portraiture and for artistic landscape compositions.
The Filmplate Premo is made in the most careful manner of the best of materials. The box is made of thoroughly seasoned wood, front bed of aluminum, all covered with selected leather of beautiful seal grain. All metal parts are highly nickeled, the bellows is of black leather, and the general appearance of the cameras is most striking. These cameras are especially suitable for home portraiture with Kodak Portrait Attachment on account of the ground glass focusing feature.
SPECIFICATIONS.
Capacity, 12 film or 2 plate exposures. Box, cherry. Bed, aluminum. Rack and pinion for fine focusing. Front, rising and sliding. Finder, reversible, brilliant, collapsible. Tripod Sockets, two. Lens, Planatograph. Shutter, Kodak Automatic with Autotime Scale (see page [7]). Dimensions. 3¼ × 4¼, 2¼ × 4⅛ × 5⅜ in.; 3A (3¼ × 5½). 21⁄16 × 4¾ × 7⅛ in.; 4 × 5, 2¼ × 4⅞ × 6⅛ in.; 5 × 7, 2⅝ × 6 × 8⅜ in. Weight, 3¼ × 4¼. 30 ozs.; 3A (3¼ × 5½), 37 ozs.: 4 × 5, 33 ozs.; 5 × 7. 56 ozs. Automatic Standard Clamp.
PRICES.
| 3¼ × 4¼ | 3A 3¼ × 5½ | 4 × 5 | 5 × 7 | |||||
| Filmplate Premo with Planatograph Lens, Kodak Auto. Shutter, Autotime Scale, Plate Holder and Film Pack Adapter | $22.50 | $25.00 | $25.00 | $30.00 | ||||
| Carrying Case | 1.75 | 2.25 | 2.25 | 3.00 | ||||
| Premo Film Pack | .70 | .80 | .90 | 1.60 | ||||
| Kodak Portrait Attachment | .50 | .50 | .50 | .50 |
FILMPLATE PREMO SPECIAL
For those who want the highest possible efficiency in a hand camera, combined with compactness and convenience, the Filmplate Premo Special is truly the ideal camera.
It is thoroughly equipped to make good pictures under all conditions of amateur photography where good pictures could possibly be made, aside from ultra rapid focal plane photography.
It is fitted with every desirable mechanical convenience. It has a fast, fully corrected lens,—the Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat, f.6.3, specially designed for hand camera work, and a high speed shutter, the Compound, that works with great precision. This shutter attains a speed of 1/250 second in the 3¼ × 4¼ size, 1/200 in the 3¼ × 5½ and 4 × 5 sizes and 1/150 second in the 5 × 7 size.
This equipment cannot be surpassed. It not only provides a very high speed for rapidly moving objects, but it enables the operator to make pictures on dark days, indoors, and under generally unfavorable light conditions, where absolute failure would result from the use of the ordinarily equipped camera.
These advantages are offered in a camera that takes films or plates with equal facility, and is as compact and easy to carry, as convenient to operate, as the average hand camera for films only. In addition this camera is provided with a ground glass which may be used for sharp focusing and accurate composing between each exposure, and this can be done with equal ease whether films or plates are used. This is an advantage which will appeal strongly to many, as it enables one to utilize to the fullest extent the microscopic definition of his anastigmat lens.
In keeping with the high grade of work for which this camera is designed, we have constructed and finished it in the best possible manner. The covering is a rich black morocco, the bellows black leather, and metal parts are handsomely nickeled, producing a most attractive combination.
Particular attention is called to the 3A size for its all-around popularity, and to the 5 × 7 for its unusual compactness for a 5 × 7 camera of its great capabilities.
SPECIFICATIONS.
Capacity, 12 film or 2 plate exposures. Box, seasoned wood. Bed. aluminum. Rack and pinion for fine focusing. Front, rising and sliding. Finder, brilliant, reversible, collapsible. Tripod Sockets, two. Lens. Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat f.6.3. Shutter, compound. Dimensions, 3¼ × 4¼, 2¼ × 4⅛ × 5⅜ in.; 3¼ × 5½. 2⅛ × 411⁄16 × 7⅛ in.; 4 × 5, 2¼ × 4⅞ × 6⅛ in.; 5 × 7. 2⅝ × 6 × 8⅜ in. Weight, 3¼ × 4¼. 26 ozs.; 3¼ × 5½, 36 ozs.; 4 × 5, 28½ ozs.; 5 × 7, 48 ozs.
PRICES.
| 3¼ × 4¼ | 3A 3¼ × 5½ | 4 × 5 | 5 × 7 | |||||
| Filmplate Premo Special with Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat, f.6.3 and Compound Shutter, Film Pack Adapter and Plate Holder | $50.00 | $60.00 | $60.00 | $80.00 | ||||
| Ditto, Cooke Ser. III A. f.6.5 Lens | 60.50 | 66.50 | 66.50 | 90.00 | ||||
| Ditto, B. & L. Zeiss Tessar Ser. II B. f.6.3 Lens | 60.00 | 71.00 | 71.00 | 90.00 | ||||
| Case, Velvet Lined | 2.75 | 3.00 | 3.00 | 4.00 | ||||
| Kodak Autotime Scale | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.50 | 1.50 | ||||
| Premo Film Pack | .70 | .80 | .90 | 1.60 |