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The '''N&G Sibyl''' is a strut folder with folding bed, made by [[Newman & Guardia]]. The example shown here has a Newton type finder. Others had [[brilliant finder]]s. This sample has a versatile shutter with seven speeds from 1/2 to 1/100 seconds. It has a [[Cooke]] 4.4inch f/6.5 lens (patents by H.D. Taylor). In the front end of the folding bed is a focusing lever to focus between 2 yards and infinity. In 1914 a 6.5x9cm variant and a quarter plate version were made and marketed as '''New Ideal Sibyl'''. The predecessing versions were ''ordinary, special and Imperial Sibyl''. Some of the cameras got a [[Protar]], a [[Tessar]] or the superb [[Ross Xpres]] lens. The '''Baby Sibyl''' is a smaller 4.5x6cm variant with [[Ross Xpres]] f/4.5 75mm plus alternate [[Dallmeyer]] Dallon Tele-[[Anastigmat]] 5.3 inch lens. The flagship was the '''Rangefinder Sibyl''' with coupled [[rangefinder (device)|rangefinder]]. Another variant was the '''Rollfilm Sibyl'''. The '''Sibyl Excelsior''' is an advanced [[rollfilm]] version with faster more reliable shutter. Film pack adapters were common accessories for these cameras.

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==Historic Illustrations==


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| colspan=3  | Historic advertisement. Details: Sybil Vitesse (left) and Sybil Excelsior (middle)<ref>Photograms of the Year 1932, p. 44</ref>
|Baby Sybil<ref>Photograms of the Year 1938, p 28</ref>
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|colspan=4 |<small>scans courtesy {{image author|Dirk HR Spennemann}}</small> {{public domain}}
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== Notes ==
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[[Category:6.5x9_strut_folding]]
[[Category:UK]]
[[Category:1911-1914]]
[[Category:S]]