Sears Panoramic, lenses and printing accessories User manual

SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO., CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. _

Model A Conley Panoramic Camera, $17.50

For Panoramic Pictures, 3!x12 Inches

THE CONLEY PANORAMIC CAMERA makes pictures embracing an extremely wide angle of view. An ordinary camera with
rectilinear lens makes pictures which include an angle of about 60 to 65 degrees; with a wide angle lens, 80 to 90 degrees: or with an “extreme”
Tide anele lens it in ponble to include slightly over 100 degrees; but this marks the limit for ordinary cameras, and lens capable of including
wage of 100 degrees is very slow and yields an exaggerated perspective which gives a very unnatural appearance to the object photographed.

[ANGLE OF 140 DEGREES. The Rapid Rectlinear Lens with which this camera is equipped is pivoted upon a revolving vertical shaft,
ctusted by clockwork mechanism. When the button is presed to make an exponure the shaft revolves, thus swinging the lens from one side
Whe other, instantaneously recording everything within its sweep of 140 degrees, and making a picture 12 inches long by 31/2 inches wide.

FOR LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY this Panoramic Camera is unrivaled, including everything that can be seen with the eye, instead
‘of just the small section of view to which the ordinary camera is limited. Pictures made at comers where stretscrom at right angles will include
both streets fully. For scenery of any kind, expecially in the mountains, this camera has no equal, and for large estates, parks, or any subject
which include an angle beyond the capacity of ordinary cameras, it is indispensable. Remarkable pictures of high mountains, waterfalls, and
‘other subjects of great height, may be made by holding the camera vertically

FOR GROUP PHOTOGRAPHS the Conley Panoramic Camera is remarkably effective, as the members of the group may be arranged
in a semicircle, each one at practically the same distance from the camera, thus making them all of the proper relative size, and all in sharp
focus, even with the lens used at full aperture.

EXPOSURES OF VARYING LENGTH. This camera is equipped with three fans which may be intanly attached for the purpove of
‘varying the length of exposure. Without a fan, the exposure is 1-50th of second, which is quick enough for all ordinary street scenes with
Loving cbjecte, noch as pedestians and the ordinary trafic of a city street. By attaching the smallest fan the exposure is 1-25th of a second; with
the medium far itis T-12ih of a second, and with the largest fan it is 1-6 of second, these longer exponures being necessary when the light
‘anditons ae not favorable, or when itis desirable to employ a smaller diaphragm. Exposures may be sill further vegulated by the iris diaphragm,
thes giving the operator complete control of the amount of exposure, a feature not provided in any other panoramic camera on the market,

DAYLIGHT LOADING. The Conley Panoramic Camera uses daylight loading film cartridges of regular stock size, sold everywhere
bby dealers in photographic goods. As many rolls of film as wanted may be carved, and exposed rolls removed from the camera or new once
inserted in broad daylight.

CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT. This camera is equipped with a very fine rapid rectilinear F:6 lens, with iris diaphragm,
made expecially for panoramic work- It is fited with brilliant finder, round spirit level, two tripod sockets, and improved film winding device,
hich Eecpe the &lm under a slight tension and always exactly in the focal plane. A safety lock is provided to prevent accidental expovure and
to guard against meddlers. Exposure numbers on the film are seen through a small ruby window in the back of the camera. This camera
tmesrures 474x10Y4x6V5 inches and weighs 68 ounces. It is covered with genuine leather, all metal parts are nickel plated and both materials

and workmanship are high class throughout.

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No. 20E1002. Leather Carrying Case for Model A Conley Panoramic Camera. Price,

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No. 20E1834 Ansco Film for Model A Conley Panoramic Camera. Price, per roll (five exposures, 3/9x12 inches)

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42 EVERYTHING FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHER.

Home Portraiture With Conley Cameras

NO PICTURES OF THE CHILDREN
are so interesting as the ones which you take your-
self at home, and no other pictures will be so
highly valued in after years; yet such pictures are
very easy lo make. The pictures of the little one
on the opposite page illustrate the possibilities which
home portraiture offers to the owners of Conley
cameras. With any of the better grades of Conley
cameras you can make pictures just as good or
better than these. All that you need is a little
knowledge of the essential principles of lighting and
posing, and, with the assistance of the practical
advice and suggestions contained in “Complete
Instructions in Photography,” this knowledge will
come to you quickly and easily.

ANY OF THE BETTER GRADES of
Conley cameras will make pictures like those shown
on the opposite page. Such styles as the Long
Focus, the Double Extension and the View cam-
eras are best adapted to home portrait work because
of their ample bellows capacity and convenience of
adjustment. An anastigmat lens is not an actual
necessity if advantage is taken of favorable light
conditions. With a lens working at F:8, such as is
regularly furnished with any of our better cameras,
an exposure of 1-5 of a second is sufficient in a well
lighted room, and if the light is unusually good an
exposure as short as 1-25 of a second is often sulfi-
cient. In portrait work exposures of this length are
short enough to avoid blurring from movement of
the subject.

THE BABY’S PICTURES shown on the opposite page were all taken with a 5x7 Conley View Camera. For
some of them the Conley Series V Anastigmat Lens was used, and for others the regular equipment consisting of the Conley
F:8 Rapid Rectilinear Lens. Most of them were taken in the house in an ordinary living room under conditions which ean be
duplicated in any home. A few of them were taken out on the porch on days when the light was not quite bright enough
for good results inside. “They are not shown as remarkable examples of photography and they are not the work of a skilled
photographer. On the contrary, they were all laken by an amateur of very little experience and are excellent examples of the
kind of pictures that can be made by anyone with a Conley camera if a reasonable degree of care is exercised in regard
to lighting. Most of these pictures were taken with an exposure of 1-25 of a second, just quick enough to avoid blurring
of the picture if the subject moved during the exposure. A few of them were made with longer exposures on days when the
light was not so bright. An exposure of 1-5 or even Ys of a second is usually short enough to arrest motion if the subject can
be induced to remain reasonably quiet,

OUTDOOR PICTURES OF THE CHILDREN are still easier to take and the requirements in the way of
equipment are still less exacting. Any camera described in this catalog will make good outdoor pictures of children. The
Model I Conley Camera, which we sell for only $1.78, will make delightful little groups and figure studies; the Model VIII
Conley Camera will make them still better, and with our very best cameras you can do anything that the most experienced pro-
fessional photographer could do.

HOME PORTRAIT WORK IS EASIER if the camera is equipped with a fast anastigmat lens, and we earnestly ad-
vise the purchase of such a lens, as the finer results amply justify the additional expense, but at the same time we want to impress
upon every prospective purchaser of a camera the fact that delightfully interesting pictures of the little ones can be made with
even the lowest priced Conley cameras, and a series of such pictures from babyhood up will be a most treasured possession.