In 1883 the Rochester Optical Company invented and produced the famous "Premo" view camera line. Though Rochester Optical Company was taken over by Kodak in 1903, Kodak contnued the Premo camera line. The Pony Premo No. 6 camera was designed as a higher quality camera for a greater variety of work than the previous Pony Premo cameras, No.s 1 to 4, including longer bellows for telephoto work.