The Compact Double Extension Cycle Montauk was manufactured by G. Gennert from approximately 1900 to 1908. Offered as the most complete hand camera of the cycle pattern ever produced. It was a camera exceedingly compact in design, light and handy for tours a wheel or a foot, and offering a bellows extension of 18 inches in the 4x5 size, 22 inches in the 5x7 size, and 26 inches in the 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch size.

The special feature of this camera is its double extension bed. While there are a number of similar Cycle Cameras on the market, there is none in which this feature is so perfectly developed and so conveniently arranged as in the Montauk. The Double Extension Montauk is the only camera having two separate extensions one sliding upon the other and each manipulated by its own rack and pinion. The feature of the double rack and pinion ensures the greatest ease and accuracy of working throughout the entire range of the camera extension.

Other features include double swings controlled in position by a thumb screw, perfectly square reversible back for horizontal and vertical pictures, spring actuated ground glass to hold the plate holder in position, Unicum shutter, Brilliant finder, focusing scale, and a tripod plate. The lens is a Rapid Rectilinear specially composed for long focus work to yield three different focal lengths and pictures in three different sizes of one and the same object taken from one point. The long focus bellows are suitable for lenses from four to twenty eight inches in focus.

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