Mayfield's Pocket Camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1883-1893 in London

maker:: Mayfield, Cobb & Company Limited

Mayfield pocket camera. Folding hand camera in polished ebonite for plates 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. f/8-64 lens, RR type. Rotary shutter with speed adjustment. Ground glass focusing screen. c. 1888. Manufactured by Mayfield, Cobb and Co., Ltd., 41-35 Victoria Street, London. With fitting for flash.

Details

Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/2925

Materials:: glass, ebonite, brass (copper, zinc alloy), bone and leather

Measurements:: overall: 104 mm x 104 mm x 164 mm,

type:: plate camera

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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