The Optical Magic Lantern Journal (April 1899)

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xii. The Optical Megic Lantern Journal and Photographic Enlarger. A HIGH GRADE CAMERA should be as perfect for hand use as with the tripod. It must combine the possibility of making carefully selected pictures, where posing and light can be controlled. with the power of immediate action, when a suitable and effective lighting has to be quickly taken advantage of. “No. 4 CARTRIDGE KODAK is such a camera. It has a rapid rectilinear lens with iris diaphragm and pneumatic or trigger release to the shutter. It is readily opened, and is very compact and portable, measuring when closed, only 34 inches in thickness. It is also provided with rack and pinion for fine focussing, and is thus equally adapted FOR HAND AND TRIPOD. When carried in the hand it is unobtrusive, all fittings being sunk flush. The camera may be carried without a case. It is particularly suited for attaching toa cycle, for which purpose specially designed dust-proof cases, fitted with simple clamping arrangement for securing the camera to the cycle, are supplied. The No. 4 Cartridge Kodak takes a 5 x 4 picture, the most useful all-round size, and is adapted FOR PLATES AND FILMS. Price, for film use only, £5 5S. Plate Holders and Adapters charged extra. KODAKS KODAK, Limited, from SUCCESSORS TO EASTMAN Photographic Materials Company, Ltd., £1 1s. to 43, Clerkenwell Rd., LONDON, E.C. 7 7 Retall Branches: 60, Cheapside, E.C. ; 115, Oxford St.. W.; 171-173, Regent St., W. £ S. PARIS: FASTMAN KODAK Société Anonyine Frincaise. Avenue de l'Opéra 5. Plice Vendéme ¢. BEKLIN: EASTMAN KODAK Gesellschit, m.b MH. Friedrich Strasse rot. Markgeafen Strasse 91. ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, Eastman Kodak Co. Printed and Published by the Proprietors, TH): Macrc LANTERN JOURNAL Compayxy, Lrp., 9, Carthusian Street, London, F.C.