TO SEE WHAT\'S NEW IN OUR SHOWROOM PLEASE VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE - sophotobicester - AND PLEASE \'LIKE\' US WHILE YOU\'RE THERE ....If you\'re offerding on or buying multiple items from us, please wait for our invoice before paying for them - we\'ll work out a combined shipping charge for here is a very rare early Kodak bellows camera for all Kodak collectors ...Premo was a brand name that Kodak applied to many of their higher-spec professional folding and bellows cameras from the early 1900s through to the 1930s.The Premo No. 9 Camera was manufactured by Eastman Kodak company in the USA from 1913 to 1923, designed with all the mechanical adjustments to accommodate all-round photographic work. The long black leather bellows will accommodate nearly full size copies and single combination when distant images are the subject. Constructed of kiln dried wood covered in fine grain leather, with the bed highly polished with black finish.The many features included are swing back and rising and falling front to accommodate the correct composition of architectural subjects, spring catch reversible back, rack and pinion focusing with locking device, metal standard, removable lens board, brilliant reversible finder (sadly missing from this one) and a tripod socket. This camera is for 4x5 film and has the basic Kodak Anstigmat 170mm f6.5 lens and ball bearing shutter, while several lens & body options were also available : there were three film size options - 4 x 5, 3 1/4 x 5 1/2, and 5 x 7 inch size for plates or the Premo Film Pack with twelve exposures.This is a classic, vintage US-made Kodak Premo No 9 bellows camera from the late 1910s with 170mm f6.5 lens for 4x5 plate film, in fairly good cosmetic condition, sadly missing its bright optical viewfinder, bellows in good order, lens optically clean, shutter is firing

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