patent drawings and Cirkut camera (camera photo courtesy Bill McBride)
Toronto. Group photos have always been a challenge. In Photographic Canadiana issue 36-1 dated May-June 2010, our late editor Bob Lansdale covers two things near and dear to him: group photos with special cameras; and Canadiana.
This issue includes a detailed article by the late Bill McBride, “Evolution of the No. 10 Cirkut Camera”; an obit about Bill McBride who passed away in late 2009 down in California; “The Inventors of the Cirkut Camera and its parts…” by Bob Lansdale, including the Canadian connection; plus a photograph of the “Monster sized panoramic prints as they were found under the attic flooring of the Ontario Legislature buildings”.
Bob introduces Mr McBride as follows, “Bill McBride is considered the best source of information about the Cirkut camera as he has researched and written for years about this exceptional panorama camera which altered the history of photography. Capable of recording a full sweep of 360 degrees of the horizon it was used to photograph great crowds of people on one long strip of film.
“Beginning on page 10 we reprint an article by Bill McBride that was published in the Graflex Historic Quarterly and also in The Photographist. We follow it with biographies of three of the men who pooled their inventions to produce the first Cirkut camera in 1904.”
The articles on the Cirkut camera are in issue 36-1 mailed to all members back then – or if members joined more recently, on their DVD (covers Photographic Canadiana volumes 1 – 40). Not a member? It’s easy – follow the steps to the right, or view the MEMBERSHIP menu item above.
