[W&B] 2nd Quality 2-lens camera, radial drive

[Marenfred at aol.com]

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 at comcast.net 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_ 
(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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