The No. 7 Folding Buckeye Camera was manufactured by the American Camera Manufacturing Company of Rochester, New York in circa 1895 - 1908. The No. 7 folding buckeye camera's main innovation was the top loading film cartridges that can be easily lifted to allow for focusing on the back ground glass, then the cartridge pushed back down and the image captured on the film in the cartridge. The no. 7 camera captured 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch exposures and the No. 8 captured 4x5 inch exposures. The camera was designed with a typical drop down front with a long 18" extension bellows coupled with rack and pinion focus adjustment. The camera was constructed of mahogany with seal grain leather covering and a leather bellows. Various sizes were available. It featured a double combination extra rapid rectilinear lens, mounted in a Baush & Lomb automatic shutter providing speeds of 1/100, 1/25, 1/5, 1/2 and 1 second, and also has bulb movement. features include a rack and pinion for focusing, a reversible brilliant finder, two tripod sockets, focusing scale. It accepted daylight loading film cartridges for 2, 4, six or twelve exposures. The No. 7 Folding Buck-eyes Camera was priced at $13.75.00 in 1904.

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