9 - New Ideas Mfg. Co., New York | New Ideas Tourist Multiple

New Ideas Mfg. Co., New York | New Ideas Tourist Multiple Estimate: €5,000–6,000 Year: c. 1913 Condition: B- English: Early American 35 mm still camera, manufactured by New Ideas Mfg. Co., New York, and marketed by Herbert & Huesgen. Introduced around 1913, the Tourist Multiple is the earliest commercially available still camera designed for 35 mm motion-picture film. The camera produces 18 × 24 mm negatives, using the standard 35 mm cine-film format of the period, and was designed to accommodate long film rolls, allowing for several hundred exposures without reloading. Its vertically oriented body, folding sports viewfinder, and cinema-inspired construction make it one of the most distinctive pre-Leica 35 mm cameras. This very rare camera is in its original condition. The camera on offer is equipped with the Bausch & Lomb–Zeiss Tessar Series Ic 3.5/50 mm lens, one of the lens types listed for the Tourist Multiple in contemporary literature. German: Early American 35mm camera, manufactured by New Ideas Mfg. Co., New York, and distributed by Herbert & Huesgen. Introduced around 1913, the Tourist Multiple was the first commercially available camera for 35mm motion picture film. It produces 18 × 24 mm negatives and was designed for long rolls of film, allowing for several hundred exposures without reloading. Its portrait-oriented body, flip-up sports viewfinder, and design derived from motion picture film make it one of the most distinctive 35mm cameras from the pre-Leica era. This extremely rare camera is in its original condition. Equipped with a Bausch & Lomb–Zeiss Tessar Series Ic 3.5/50 mm lens.