Blair No.3 Combination Hawk-Eye

Blair No.3 Combination Hawk-Eye

This advertisement shows two views of the Combination Hawk-Eye: opened and closed. The tab shown on top of the camera at left is the darkslide which would be removed when taking a picture.

When the back is rotated upward, a ground glass back must be attached to the camera. What is not shown or described in the advertisement, is the fact that the ground glass assembly must first be removed from the camera body before closing the rollfilm back. Unlike the No.4 Screen Focus Kodak which can store the ground glass assembly inside the back, the Blair has no storage for the ground glass or darkslide..

Source: Camera Craft Magazine (advertisement), June 1904
(Reference courtesy of Paul Barone)

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