The Bullard Long Focus Separable Magazine Cycle Camera is a revelation among cameras, possessing entirely new features, which particularly commend it for the use of amateurs. It possesses the usual rising, falling and sliding front, rack and pinion and swing back movements. Special care is taken in the construction of this camera, all parts being accurately measured by the metric system, by which they are made interchangeable. The camera throughout is made of selected mahogany, highly polished and handsomely covered with fine morocco leather. The metal work is all of brass and forged steel, with nickel finish and lacquered. For copying, enlarging, and all other work requiring the use of long focus lenses, it is especially adapted, having an extension bed of forged steel, making the camera perfectly rigid and insuring against vibration when the bellows is drawn to its full length. The pinion is embedded near the end of the bed of the camera, giving perfect control of the camera when focusing, even with full drawn bellows. This camera has, as its name indicates, a separable magazine attachment, a prominent feature of the new style Bullard magazine cameras, and is especially adapted to the use of those taking short tours on bicycles, as it dispenses entirely with extra holders, and by its construction the plates are changeable in broad daylight. The lens is of the instantaneous symmetrical class, and is an excellent instrument. The front lens may be removed and the rear combination used when taking views of objects at a distance, thereby nearly doubling the size of the image. The lens is fitted with a Rauber & Wollensak Optical Co. double valve shutter with an iris diaphragm. The finder is a double lens brilliant. The double plate holder is made upon entirely new principles�two embedded buttons on the end of the holder retaining the plate in position and releasing it as desired. The price�$40.00�includes camera, lens, shutter, magazine attachment, ground glass screen, double plate holder, and sole leather carrying case with strap. Made only in 4 x 5 size.

ref: The American Amateur Photographer 1901

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