Ensign Klito Folding Bellows Camera and Filmpack Cassette, c 1920

Made:
1920 in London
maker:
George Houghton and Son
and
Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera negatives 3 1/4 x 5 (9 x 12) for plates and cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out standrtad with double extension bellows with rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Bauscj & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens approx F.8 mounted in a Kodak ball bearing shutter, speeds 1/25 sec 1/100 B. & T. With back ground-glass focusing screen with waist-level finder. Made of wood and metal covered in black leather. Houghton, c.1920

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Arthur Frank Collection
Object Number:
1979-559/537
Materials:
wood (unidentified), metal (unknown), leather and glass
type:
plate camera and filmpack cassette
credit:
The Arthur Frank Collection

Parts

Ensign Filmpack Cassette, c 1920

Ensign Filmpack Cassette, c 1920

Filmpack cassette for an Ensign Klito folding bellows camera negatives 3 1/4 x 5 (9 x 12) for plates and cutfilm. Houghton, c.1920

Measurements:
overall: 185 mm x 100 mm x 15 mm,
Object Number:
1979-559/537/1
type:
filmpack cassette
Ensign Klito Folding Bellows Camera, c 1920

Ensign Klito Folding Bellows Camera, c 1920

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera negatives 3 1/4 x 5 (9 x 12) for plates and cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out standrtad with double extension bellows with rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Bauscj & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens approx F.8 mounted in a Kodak ball bearing shutter, speeds 1/25 sec 1/100 B. & T. With back ground-glass focusing screen with waist-level finder. Made of wood and metal ...

Measurements:
overall: 190 mm x 117 mm x 55 mm,
Materials:
glass , leather , metal (unknown) and wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1979-559/537/2
type:
plate camera