The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera for plates or cutfilm 4 3/4 x 6 1/2

Made:
circa 1900 in London
maker:
Emil Busch AG and George Houghton and Son

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera for plates or cutfilm 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With double extension and separate rack and pinion focusing. Reversing back and swing back. Fitted with a Busch Rapid Symmetrical F.8 8" f.1 mounted in a front of a Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter with speeds 1/15sec to 1/90sec. Of polished French mahogany with brass fittings. Houghton, c.1900. With three wooden double dark slides.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Arthur Frank Collection
Object Number:
1979-559/187
Materials:
glass, mahogany (wood) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
type:
field camera
credit:
The Arthur Frank Collection

Parts

Case for The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera. Houghton

Case for The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera. Houghton

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera case. Houghton, c.1900.

Object Number:
1979-559/187/1
type:
case
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
three wooden dakrslides

three wooden dakrslides

Three wooden darkslides. Houghton, c.1900.

Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1979-559/187/2
type:
darkslide
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera for plates or cutfilm 4 3/4 x 6 1/2

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera for plates or cutfilm 4 3/4 x 6 1/2

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows field or stand camera for plates or cutfilm 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With double extension and separate rack and pinion focusing. Reversing back and swing back. Fitted with a Busch Rapid Symmetrical F.8 8" f.1 mounted in a front of a Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter with speeds 1/15sec to 1/90sec. Of polished French mahogany with brass fittings. Houghton, c.1900. With three wooden double dark slides.

Materials:
mahogany (wood) , brass (copper, zinc alloy) , wood (unidentified) and tin (metal)
Object Number:
1979-559/187/3
type:
field camera
Image ©
The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum