Expo watch camera

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1905 in New York
maker:
Expo Camera Company

Expo watch camera. T?I shutter, not self capping - lens cap used. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture and focus. Automatic exposure counter. Manufactured by Expo Camera Co., New York. Identical to Ticka camera. Overall: 24 mm x 58 mm (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:
1990-5036/2058
Materials:
glass and white metal (unknown)
Measurements:
overall: 24 mm, 58 mm,
type:
detective camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford