2nd Quality 2-lens camera, radial drive

[Milan Zahorcak*]

I would abbreviate "My, we are a quiet group" to "Myaaqg" but that sounds like the Malay curry I made last night . . . and am paying the price for this morning.  I wouldn't want to think of the group in that way.

 

So, I'm getting ready to install a much larger back-up hard drive and I'm trying to clean up my image files . . . 26,451 images since 1998 . . . not much question of whether digital is going to supplant silver-based technology any more, is there?

 

After a while I give up, and I dump all the loose and uncatalogued images into a Misc folder which is now 8x larger than any other image folder I have.  BUT, in the process I come across some images that I shot of a borrowed volume of "The Philadelphia Photographer" (1866 thru 1869) back in 2005 and I catch something that I missed the first 1000 times I've looked at them.

 

And I made a link - remarkable the way the universe works.

 

Back in August of 2007, I asked about the the term "radial drive" and asked if anyone had any illustrations.  There were very few.

 

Now we skip ahead to last week, and Greg asked about "2nd Quality" cameras and he provided a link to his 2-lens AOC John Stock.

 

Well, back in February, 1866, the Lewis Photographic Works ran an ad in the Philly Photog for "Apparatus used by photographers" and they provided illustrations of a burnisher and a tripod . . . but mounted on that tripod is a camera . . . a camera that has two lenses . . . a camera that has two radial-drive lenses . . .

 

I've combined the Greg's camera and the ad at this link:

 

http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/milanpub/2lens-Camera.jpg

 

Pretty cool.

 

Other links to explore:  I think Lewis had some relationship to C C Harrison; C C Harrison most definitely had a relationship with John Stock; Harrison and Stock were at one time owned by AOC . . . someone else take it from there.

 

And all this before coffee this AM.

 

mz

 

PS:  the lenses in the Lewis ad look very much like the late model Harrison "narrow body" radials, after about serial #6000 or so.

 

 

[Marenfred]

Yes I am out here. Milan, thanks for sharing. Your knowledge is amazing, as is your treasure trove of material. In case you stumble across it, I am still searching for a history of Shew, and a bio/obit of J.F. Shew. I will send M&M's for these you come across them.

Cheers,

Fred

 

In a message dated 3/20/2008 11:16:28 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, milan.zahorcak@... writes:

I would abbreviate "My, we are a quiet group" to "Myaaqg" but that sounds like the Malay curry I made last night . . . and am paying the price for this morning.  I wouldn't want to think of the group in that way.

 

So, I'm getting ready to install a much larger back-up hard drive and I'm trying to clean up my image files . . . 26,451 images since 1998 . . . not much question of whether digital is going to supplant silver-based technology any more, is there?

 

After a while I give up, and I dump all the loose and uncatalogued images into a Misc folder which is now 8x larger than any other image folder I have.  BUT, in the process I come across some images that I shot of a borrowed volume of "The Philadelphia Photographer" (1866 thru 1869) back in 2005 and I catch something that I missed the first 1000 times I've looked at them.

 

And I made a link - remarkable the way the universe works.

 

Back in August of 2007, I asked about the the term "radial drive" and asked if anyone had any illustrations.  There were very few.

 

Now we skip ahead to last week, and Greg asked about "2nd Quality" cameras and he provided a link to his 2-lens AOC John Stock.

 

Well, back in February, 1866, the Lewis Photographic Works ran an ad in the Philly Photog for "Apparatus used by photographers" and they provided illustrations of a burnisher and a tripod . . . but mounted on that tripod is a camera . . . a camera that has two lenses . . . a camera that has two radial-drive lenses . . .

 

I've combined the Greg's camera and the ad at this link:

 

http://www.pacificrimcamera.com/milanpub/2lens-Camera.jpg

 

Pretty cool.

 

Other links to explore:  I think Lewis had some relationship to C C Harrison; C C Harrison most definitely had a relationship with John Stock; Harrison and Stock were at one time owned by AOC . . . someone else take it from there.

 

And all this before coffee this AM.

 

mz

 

PS:  the lenses in the Lewis ad look very much like the late model Harrison "narrow body" radials, after about serial #6000 or so.

 

 

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