Twin Lens Colour Camera

Made:
1925-1935

Prototype stereoscopic hexochromatic camera, or twin lens colour camera, with internal filters (one lens missing). c. 1930.

For making stereoscopic colour photographs, this type of camera was invented by Edward Tranter Butler and patented in 1895

Details

Category:
Photography
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
1989-7
Measurements:
crate: 220 mm x 300 mm x 200 mm,
type:
camera
credit:
On loan from the Wellcome Trust