Thought this might be of interest to some. Ran across this guy this weekend at a reenactment we took some scouts to and was very interesting to watch him work.

The camera is an original from the time period.

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About as simple as it gets. Cardboard cut outs for aperture settings.

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Pretty sure the duct tape is about the only hardware update!

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