Photography in the Studio and in the Field / A Practical Manual Designed as a Companion Alike to the Professional and the Amateur Photographer

by Edward M. Estabrooke

Fig. 1 shows the front, with the method of attaching the four lenses, which are of the ¼ size, and they make four pictures on a 5×7 plate.

FIG. 1. CLIMAX.

Fig. 2 shows the back of the same box with the ground glass reversed, and the plateholder partly pushed into position; there are shown also the openings through which the various sizes of pictures are made. This box can also be used with one lens for making two cartes de visite or one cabinet on the 5×7 plate. p102 The same style may be had with the ground glass hinged to the box.

FIG. 2. CLIMAX.

FIG. 3.

This same style of box is made also of larger sizes, to be used with one or more lenses, of which Fig. 3 represents the size for 8×10, by which with one lens can be made 4 cartes de visite or 2 cabinets on 8×10 p103 or 7×10 plates, and with 4 lenses 8 cartes de visite on the same size plate, or with 9 lenses 18 large gems are made by two exposures.