Rochester Camera Co.,
Rochester, NY
Rochester Camera & Supply Co., Rochester,
NY
Cycle Poco Copying Camera
Rochester
Camera & Supply Catalog, 1899, p. 32 8 x 10 Date Introduced: - ;
Years Manufactured: c.
1898-1899 References:
Back to Rochester Optical Group of Manufacturers
Construction: rear focus
via push-pull, no swing, back does not come off & non-reversing, unique
front of camera slides to the side to remove, has bellows hooks on front
standard
Materials: cherry wood
throughout, brass hardware, black leatherette bellows
Sizes Offered:
6 ½x8 ½, 8x10
Notes: There are two
sections to the bed, both hinged to fold up compactly despite the length
of the bellows draw. This is a camera with a split personality,
advertised to be used either for copying, as shown in the engraving, or
for taking, as the camera in the photographs. There is no lens
board, but the entire front slides off to one side. To use as a
copy camera, the lens board is removed; the brass clips on both sides of
the front standard can be loosened and swiveled 90 degrees to clamp a
Cycle Poco to the front, as the engraving illustrates; in this
configuration, the above camera is essentially a bellows extension for
the Cycle Poco, which can then be used for close focusing, such
as copy work.
Photographic Apparatus, Rochester Camera Co. (Rochester, NY),
1898, p. 34
Photographic Apparatus, Rochester Camera & Supply Co. (Rochester,
NY), 1899, p. 32
Photography
has Made the Sun an Artist, Andrew J. Lloyd (Boston, MA) catalog, 1899,
p.119
