Folmer & Schwing Div., E.K.C., Rochester, NY
Home Portrait Camera No. 1
EKC Professional Catalog, 1917, p. 21
8 x 10
Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured:
c. 1918 References:
Construction: rear focus
via rack and pinion (two gear tracks on top of base rails);
reversing by removable back
Materials: mahogany body; cherry base;
black fabric bellows; brass hardware
Sizes Offered: 8x10 only
Notes: It is essentially a studio
camera of the era which happens to have a folding base.
Similar to the
F&S Commercial
View of the same era, except this camera only has a 22" rather
than 42" bellows draw, and is rear focus only.
It's name implies that it might be for amateur use, but, then again, no
Folmer-Schwing camera is for amateurs; this camera is meant to be used
by a professional photographer to lug around to people's homes to take
their portraits. It has a typically Folmer-Schwing robustness that
is unrivaled in strength and weight.
Milwaukee Photo Materials Co. Catalogue No. 5, Milwaukee Photo
Materials Co. (Milwaukee, WI), undated c.1907, p.51
Number 30 Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic
Outfits, Lenses and Supplies,
Robey-French Co. (Boston, MA), c. 1915,
p. 51
Eastman Professional Photographic Apparatus and
Materials 1917, Eastman
Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY), p. 21
Cameras, Photographic Apparatus and Supplies,
11th Ed., Hirsch & Kaiser (San Francisco,
CA), c. 1917,
p. 8
