"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera

Made:: 1912-1920 in Glasgow

maker:: C P Goerz; J Lizars

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"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera. Teak with brass fittings.Focusing by rack and pinion. Rising front and side movement lens panel. Fitted with a Goerz Berlin double Anastigmat Dagor F.6.8 150mm f.1 lens series 111 mounted in a lever set pneumatic compound shutter with speeds 1sec 1/200sec B. & T. With optical brilliant waist-level viewfinder mouned on baseboard, Lizars, c.1920

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Object Number:: 1979-559/16

Materials:: brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass, leather, leatherette, mahogany (wood), metal (unknown), nickel plated, phenolic plastic, teak (wood)

Measurements:: overall (assembled): 135 x 260 x 190 mm
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type:: rollfilm camera

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tools and equipment
equipment by process
image making equipment
camera (function)

credit:: The Arthur Frank Collection

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