Sibyl

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The Sibyl was a strut folder with folding bed. The sample shown above has a Newton type finder. Others had brilliant finders. The sample above had a versatile shutter with seven speeds from 1/2 to 1/100 seconds. It had 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 the superb Ross Xpres lens. The Baby Sibyl was a smaller 4.5x6cm variant with RossXpress f/4.5 75mm or Dallmeyer Dallon Anastigmat 5.3 inch lens. The flagship was the Rangefinder Sibyl with coupled rangefinder.