Ticka camera

Ticka camera Ticka camera Ticka camera. C1906. Watch type pocket camera for 18mm rollfilm Ticka camera. C1906. Watch type pocket camera for 18mm rollfilm Ticka camera Ticka camera

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The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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Ticka camera. C1906. Watch type pocket camera for 18mm rollfilm
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

Ticka camera. C1906. Watch type pocket camera for 18mm rollfilm
Science Museum Group
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum, London

The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
Science Museum Group Collection

Ticka camera. C1906. Watch type pocket camera for 18mm rollfilm, 25 pictures 22 x 16mm. Simple lens fitted of fixed focus and aperture, spring actuated guillotine shutter, with time setting, lens capped with cocking shutter, automatic exposure counter, with empty film cartridge. Manufactured by Houghton's Ltd. Overall (deployed): 44 mm x 58 mmm (dia.).

A very popular metal miniature camera in the form of a pocket watch. It was designed to use roll film, 17.5mm wide, contained in a special cardboard drop-in cartridge. The lens, carried in the winding stem, had to be covered by a screw-on cap between exposures. No viewfinder was fitted but a clip-on finder was available as an optional extra.

The Ticka camera was introduced in 1905 and offered for sale until approximately 1914. The camera was a licensed copy of the Expo Watch camera, made by the Expo Camera Company in the United States.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/1723
Materials:
glass and white metal (unknown)
Measurements:
overall (deployed): 44 mm, 58 mm,
type:
detective camera and cartridge camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford