Rochester Optical & Camera Co. (Rochester, NY)
Long Focus Premo Variation 2 - c.1897-1901
Long Focus
Premo Variation 1:
The Premo Camera The Poco Camera Catalogue,
Rochester Optical & Camera Co. 1901, p.17
4 x 5
Notes:
Long Focus
Premo Variation 1 has a telescoping bed and focusing only at
the front.
Long Focus Premo Variation
2 has a telescoping bed and focusing both at the front and back. Long
Focus Premo Variation 3 has an elaborate rear standard support.
This configuration was
advertised for five years, and yet is seemingly the rarest of the
Long Focus Premo
variatations. Perhaps it was designed and offered after the heyday
of these large and expensive view cameras in a box. References:
Catalogue of Photographic Apparatus, Rochester Optical Co.
(Rochester, NY), May 1897, p. 28-29
Illustrated Catalogue of Photographic Equipments
and Materials for Amateurs, E. & H.T. Anthony & Co. (New York, NY),
November, 1898, p. 28-29
Photography
has Made the Sun an Artist,
Andrew J. Lloyd (Boston, MA) catalog, 1899, p.123
The Premo Camera The Poco Camera Catalogue,
Rochester Optical & Camera Co. 1901, p.17
