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. 4. N CAMERA, REAR VIEW.

FIG. 5.

For gallery work, however, the Figs. 4 and 5 represent p104 the most useful form of multiplying camera, as by their aid everything that would be called for in a ferrotype gallery can be made.

With one lens can be made on 8×10 plate: 2 cabinets, 2 cartes de visite or 1 large picture. With 4 lenses can be made on 8×10 plate by 2 exposures: 8 cartes de visite, and on 5×7 plates by one exposure, 4 cartes de visite.

With 9 ¹⁄₉ lenses on 7×10 plate can be made with two exposures: 18 gems; with 4 exposures, 36 gems; and with 8 exposures, 72 gems; on 5×7 plate with 1 exposure, 9; 2 exposures, 18; and with 4 exposures, 36 gems.

The carriage and plate holder of these boxes move vertically and horizontally, thus giving the operator the power of making a great variety of sizes and of using any size of plate from ¼ upwards to 8×10. On the ¼ plate can be made with one exposure, 4 ¹⁄₉ gems; 8 of the next smaller size by 2 exposures; and 16 of the smallest size, by 4 exposures, thus bringing into use only 4 of the 9 lenses; the second size is made by placing the lenses horizontally, also the openings in the back of the box, the plate also is laid on its side in the holder.

These boxes are finished in a variety of styles, plain or ornamental, and are fitted with holders for negatives as well as the usual rabbeted holders for ferrotypes, and by their use all the work of a small establishment might very easily be done, as all the sizes of ferrotypes are made from 16 gems on ¼ plate to 72 of the same size on 7×10 plate, and by one lens everything, positive or negative, from ¼ to 8×10 size, are made without difficulty. p105

THE CAMERA FOR NEGATIVES, WET OR DRY.
CLIMAX IMPERIAL CAMERAS.