A Camera to Be Handled Like a Pistol 



It is a happy combination of a leveling and 

 sighting appendage and a repeating mechanism 



The principal 

 details of the 

 self-leveling re- 

 peating camera 



SIGHTS- 



FILM ROLL 



TO handle a camera as easily as a 

 ranchman manipulates a six-shooter, 

 and to make its aim and result 

 equally effective, is the purpose of 

 several ingenious inventions patented f 5IGHTS \ 

 by J. N. Johnson of Albuquerque 

 New Mexico. He has obviated 

 the necessity of clumsily focus- 

 ing the camera by means of a 

 finder. In addition, he claims 

 that the camera may be aimed 

 and operated with one hand, 

 like a revolver, and all its films 

 discharged, without the loss of 

 clearness and accuracy. 



The camera is the happy 

 combination of two devices: a 

 leveling and sighting appendage, 

 and a repeating or magazine 

 mechanism. These devices 

 may be used separately, if de- 

 sired. 



The leveling and sighting ap- 

 pendage is a simple contrivance 

 constructed of two horizontal 

 tubes connected at 

 their center by a verti- 

 cal tube containing 

 the shutter-op- 

 erating bulb. 

 This bracket- 

 like device may 

 be placed on the 

 top or the bot- 

 tom of the cam- 

 era, thereby en- 

 abling the pho- 

 tographer to 

 aim in any di- 

 rection he wish- 

 es — horizontally, vertically, or over the 

 heads of a crowd. The bracket is so piv- 

 oted that the camera hangs automatically 

 plumb or level, no matter how the opera- 

 tor holds it. The shutter is operated in 

 the familiar way by compressed air sent 

 through the rubber tube by the bulb in the 

 handle. The sights on the upper bar of the 

 bracket take the place of the finder and 

 insure the accuracy of the photographer. 



A motor-operated mechanism is the 

 second important device, designed auto- 

 matically to shift the film after each move- 

 ment of the shutter, so that a number of 



snap shots may be taken in rapid succes- 

 sion. This invention is conveniently 

 adapted to the ordinary film now in use. 

 Though other magazine cameras op- 

 erating on this general principle are not 

 unknown, the present invention is to 

 improve the shifting of the film 

 so that it may be turned by a 

 mechanical contrivance actuated 

 by air pressure. It also aims to 



LEASING PISTON 

 SPRING MOTOR 



"Any child can 

 do it." This 

 small boy, who 

 never had a 

 camera in his 

 hand before, 

 made a series of 

 very fine pic- 

 tures at the first 

 attempt. The 

 camera is bal- 

 anced on a pivot 



ECHANISM 



produce a direct and running 

 mechanism to prevent a double 

 exposure of the film. A spring- 

 like contrivance moves the film over the 

 rollers, a movable pin controls the starting 

 and stopping of the film at the right point; 

 air pressure opens the shutter; while its 

 exhaust releases this spring contrivance 

 which sets the film rolling for the next 

 picture. 



The self-leveling repeating camera is the 

 combined result of these two inventions. 

 The accompanying pictures illustrate its 

 makeup and its operation. They show its 

 large range of possibilities as a snap shot 

 camera. The camera fiend can stalk his 

 prey with even lessdifficulty than in thepast. 



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