Lizars 'The Challenge' Folding Bellows Plate Camera and 2 Darkslides.

Made:
1890-1900 in Glasgow
maker:
J Lizars, J

The Challenge wooden folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". With rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a fixed focus doublet lens about 6" f.1 and with wheel stops. Mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter (time and instantaneous). Lens panel of rising front movement. Mahogany with brass fittings. Lizars, c1895.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Arthur Frank Collection
Object Number:
1979-559/4
Materials:
mahogany (wood), glass and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
Measurements:
camera: 145 mm x 126 mm x 55 mm,
type:
plate camera and darkslide
credit:
The Arthur Frank Collection

Parts

Lizars 'The Challenge' Folding Bellows Plate Camera.

Lizars 'The Challenge' Folding Bellows Plate Camera.

The Challenge wooden folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". With rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a fixed focus doublet lens about 6" f.1 and with wheel stops. Mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter (time and instantaneous). Lens panel of rising front movement. Mahogany with brass fittings. Lizars, c1895.

Measurements:
overall: 145 mm x 126 mm x 55 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass and mahogany (wood)
Object Number:
1979-559/4/1
type:
plate camera
Two Darkslides for a Lizars 'The Challenge' Folding Bellows Plate Camera.

Two Darkslides for a Lizars 'The Challenge' Folding Bellows Plate Camera.

Two darkslides for the Challenge wooden folding bellows camera.

Object Number:
1979-559/4/2
type:
darkslide