8x10 Century Universal Camera, 1929 Minstrel Shows Full-field image of a stellar

Full-field image of a stellar jet in the Carina Nebula

killed by Emswyler and Bill Dupont and photographed in 1909

A great gift for a hometown resident or a friend that's moved away

Label dates back to teh 1930's

8x10 Century Universal Camera, 1929 Minstrel Shows Full-field image of a stellarThis is one of my favorite cameras. The Century Universal 8x10, patented by C. H. Roth, was one of the most versatile large format cameras of it's day. I like to call it the "poor man"s Deardorf. While the Deardorf is a beautiful camera the CU had a longer bellows draw, more rear movements, was lighter, and came with a fails safe rear level (an arrow on a nail that always pointed down). When I did my research on Berenice Abbott's work on Changing New