Three Bookform Double Darkslides.
Three bookform double dark slides, c.1905
Collapsible Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera and Three Bookform Double Darkslides.
Collapsible folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. With double extension bellows with cutt off corners, swing and reversing back, rising and tilting front with rack and pinon focusing. Fitted with a Taylor t. Hobson Cooke Primoplane lens F.6.5 4" f.1 mounted in a Thornton Pichard roller blind shutter with speeds 1/15, 1/90 sec B. Likely to be a Thornton Pickard Imperial. Of mahogany with brass fittings. c.1905. Also included are three bookform double darkslides.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Arthur Frank Collection
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/609
- Materials:
- mahogany (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), leather and glass
- type:
- plate camera and darkslide
- credit:
- The Arthur Frank Collection
Parts
Collapsible Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera.
Collapsible folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. With double extension bellows with cutt off corners, swing and reversing back, rising and tilting front with rack and pinon focusing. Fitted with a Taylor t. Hobson Cooke Primoplane lens F.6.5 4" f.1 mounted in a Thornton Pichard roller blind shutter with speeds 1/15, 1/90 sec B. Likely to be a Thornton Pickard Imperial. Of mahogany with brass fittings. c.1905
- Measurements:
-
overall: 150 mm x 160 mm x 82 mm,
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass , leather and mahogany (wood)
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/609/2
- type:
- plate camera
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
