'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera
- Made:
- 1889 in Birmingham
- maker:
- J Lancaster and Son
'The Instantograph' folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 4 1/4". Has double extension, square leather bellows, double swing back, reversing back, rising front and rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Lancaster & Son 'Wide Angle Rectigraph' lens. Of mahogany with brass fittings. Lancaster, c.1889
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/605
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass, leather and mahogany (wood)
- type:
- plate camera
- taxonomy:
-
- tools and equipment
- equipment by process
- image making equipment
- camera (function)
- credit:
- The Arthur Frank Collection
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