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Montauk Flexo-Front Multiplying Camera, 1912
Camera and Shutter References

Montauk Flexo-Front 1912 advertisement.
1906-07 Wollensak Skyshade Shutter advertisement.

1912 Reference. The Flexo-Front gets its name from the sliding wooden tambour panel that could shift the lens/shutter to four different positions. The feature is called a "flexible traveling front."

The camera shown in the reference illustrates the standard portrait lens mounted in a Winner shutter.

However, the Flexo-Front presented on this website has what appears to be a landscape lens with a front mounted Wollensak Skyshade shutter.

1906 Reference. The Skyshade shutter was designed to solve a classic landscape photography problem in which blue sensitive plates had a tendancy to over expose the sky.

To overcome this, Wollensak designed the shutter blade to change speeds during exposure.

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