EKC Professional Catalog, 1923, p.
30
7 x 17, all
brass thumbscrews
7 x 17, with wooden main
thumbscrews
Metal Label
on Front Standard
12 x 20, with
wooden main thumbscrews
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c. 1915-1929
Construction: front and
rear focus via rack and pinion (two gear
tracks on top of base rails); not reversible; three-piece
lens board
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base;
black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 7x17; 12x20
Notes:
The unusual tilt-down lens board is designed to provide extra swing (in addition to the small swing capability of the rear standard) in order to have sharp focus on a large seated group from the vantage point of a ladder. This is a very substantially made camera. The camera was discontinued by the 1929 catalog.
Some examples, like the top camera above, have all brass thumbscrews. Others, presumably the ones made in the later years of production, have wooden knobs instead of brass for the front and back focus; see the second and third examples above.
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