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campy
8-Sep-2021, 12:21
I don't have a lens or holders or a stand so I don't know if it's worth pursuing. The back slides to different positions and looks like 5x7 but I didn't have a tape measure with me.
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Tin Can
8-Sep-2021, 13:45
I buy and use cameras like that

but that's not an offer to buy

I have enough of them
Chauncey Walden
8-Sep-2021, 16:14
Is that a 5x7 sliding back on a 7x11 camera?
Jody_S
8-Sep-2021, 18:44
Looks like a penny camera from 1900-1910. Photographers would set up at a fair or tourist spot and charge a penny a photo. There were tin masks inside, coupled with the sliding back, allowed up to 20 or so photos on a 5x7 sheet. Once the sheet was full they developed, contact printed, and cut up the pics for an 'instant' portrait.

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Two23
8-Sep-2021, 18:52
Looks like a penny camera from 1900-1910. Photographers would set up at a fair or tourist spot and charge a penny a photo. There were tin masks inside, coupled with the sliding back, allowed up to 20 or so photos on a 5x7 sheet. Once the sheet was full they developed, contact printed, and cut up the pics for an 'instant' portrait.

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The square bellows makes me think 1890s.


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Tin Can
9-Sep-2021, 05:11
I have a slider back that is amazingly well made from fine wood

and now it has a name

Penny Back

about 35mm per slide

It looks confusing to remember where to slide in order

I posted pics of it not long ago
Alan Gales
9-Sep-2021, 07:42
So Campy, there are a lot of tourist spots in Boston. Set the camera up at one and charge a penny a picture. You will be rich in no time! :rolleyes:
campy
9-Sep-2021, 07:45
So Campy, there are a lot of tourist spots in Boston. Set the camera up at one and charge a penny a picture. You will be rich in no time! :rolleyes:

I could make more having people posing with it and taking a picture with my digital.
Havoc
9-Sep-2021, 10:27
Use it?
Jody_S
9-Sep-2021, 12:13
Now that I'm in my office, mine is a 'Folmer Multiple Camera' (1929-37), successor to the Penny Picture camera (renamed because prices were up to $0.25/pic).

There is a story, text from period ads, and pictures, here (https://graflexcamera.tumblr.com/post/86462938961/century-penny-picture-folmer-multiple-camera).
r.e.
9-Sep-2021, 12:27
Now that I'm in my office, mine is a 'Folmer Multiple Camera' (1929-37).

Now we have Louis Mendes. I haven't seen him around in a couple of years. He used to be just outside B&H regularly.

His Speed Graphic was made just a few years after production of your Folmer stopped.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8KOAj6Caf4
Alan Gales
9-Sep-2021, 21:40
I could make more having people posing with it and taking a picture with my digital.

Yeah, I guess you are probably right. Things sure have changed since your camera was made!
Tin Can
10-Sep-2021, 03:50
Only 20 years ago an old guy with 4X5 Speed, Polaroid film packs with Potato Masher hit all the punk bars I went to

I even danced until the mosh pit became too tough for me

The photog charged $5 or 10, and was earning at least $100 every stop, I counted from a distance

He was quick, in and out, then some other club, back several times

Mostly couples

I had a lot of fun after midnight
maltfalc
10-Sep-2021, 10:40
i'd clean it up with a bit of furniture polish and sell it to pay for more useful gear.
Deepak Kumar
13-Sep-2021, 23:22
I would first check if bellows is light tight or not. Which is very unlikely. If bellows is somehow light tight
then I would have tried to find the missing part and restore it for sale.
campy
14-Sep-2021, 04:14
I would first check if bellows is light tight or not. Which is very unlikely. If bellows is somehow light tight
then I would have tried to find the missing part and restore it for sale.

It appears to be light tight. What part exactly do I need to find?