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. 12.

p110

CAMERA BOXES

THE COPYING AND ENLARGING AND REDUCING CAMERA.

FIG. 13.

Copying constitutes a large portion of the business of every gallery, and a camera for that purpose is almost indispensable, as the portrait camera is entirely unfitted for a major portion of the copying work that comes.

The copying camera requires no swing back, but does require great length of bellows and bed, which has often to be supplemented by the cone when a very small picture is to be enlarged to a great size.

A special form of copying camera is adapted to enlarging and reducing negatives, and for making transparencies. This form, Fig. 14, can be so arranged as to render it possible to remove the lens from the position as seen in Fig. 14 to the front, so that the two p111 forms, Figs. 13 and 14, might be combined in one for copying and making transparencies.