Fitted Case and 34 Metal Darkslides for Nelrod Liteflash camera
Fitted case with 34 single metal darkslides, for Nelrod Liteflash camera.
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7071/1
- type:
- camera case
Nelrod Liteflash camera
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
Nelrod Liteflash camera. Press camera with built-in electronic flash head (seperate power pack missing); Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:135 f/4.7 Serial No 2624976. Synchro-Compur shutter; 1-1/500 sec. Coupled longbase coincidence rangefinder. Frame finder; sockets for Liteflash triggers and flashbulbs. Flash unit fitted with Mullard LSD3 flashbulb. In fitted case with 34 single metal darkslides.
Nelrod Liteflash camera made by G H Williamson (Sales) Limited, England, 1950. The Nelrod is a rigid press camera for plates or filmpack with a built-in electronic flash unit, the camera is typical of the sort used by press photographers of the period.
The Nelrod Liteflash was launched by G H Williamson, and marketed by Dawe Instruments. In 1950 the British Journal Photographic Almanac stated that the camera had been ‘designed by a press photographer for a press photographer, and it certainly incorporates a surprising number of special features that must gladden the heart of any number of that brotherhood'.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7071
- Materials:
- chromium plated, metal (unknown), leatherette and glass
- Measurements:
-
with flash unit: 340 mm x 240 mm x 170 mm, 2.36 kg
- type:
- press camera and plate camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
Parts
Nelrod Liteflash camera
Nelrod Liteflash camera. Press camera with built-in electronic flash head (seperate power pack missing); Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:135 f/4.7 Serial No 2624976. Synchro-Compur shutter; 1-1/500 sec. Coupled longbase coincidence rangefinder. Frame finder; sockets for Liteflash triggers and flashbulbs. Flash unit fitted with Mullard LSD3 flashbulb.
- Materials:
- chromium plated , metal (unknown) , leatherette and glass
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/7071/2
- type:
- press camera and plate camera
