Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887, author, Contained in (work): Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887. Manual of photography · London ; Glasgow : Richard Griffin and Company · leaf 24
shutter, by which it is protected from the light until the moment it is required to throw the image upon it. The following figures (figs. 23, 24, 25) re- present a more perfect arrangement. The ad- vantages are those of folding, and thus packing into a very small compass, for the convenience of… … Fig. 24. Fig. 25. representing those which appear best adapted to the use of the traveller. The arrangement of compound legs shown in the first insures greater steadiness than the other ; but the range of move- ment in the second gives it some advantages.
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