Minimum Cameo Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera
- Made:
- circa 1920 in London
- maker:
- W Butcher and Sons
Minimum cameo collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. Rack and pinion focusing which operates focusing and double extension. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder with spirit level. With back ground-glass screen. Lens panel has rising front and cross front movement. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear F.8 approx 7.5" f.1 mounted in a pneumatic shutter called automatic with speeds 1 -1/100sec B. & T. Made of wood and aluminium covered in black leather. Butcehr, c.1920.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Arthur Frank Collection
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/622
- Materials:
- glass, wood (unidentified), aluminium (metal) and leather
- type:
- plate camera
- credit:
- The Arthur Frank Collection
Parts

Three Metal Darkslides
3 metal dark slides, Butcher, c.1920
- Measurements:
-
overall: 154 mm x 236 mm x 22 mm,
- Materials:
- metal (unknown)
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/622/2
- type:
- darkslide
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Minimum Cameo Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera
Minimum cameo collapsible folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. Rack and pinion focusing which operates focusing and double extension. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder with spirit level. With back ground-glass screen. Lens panel has rising front and cross front movement. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear F.8 approx 7.5" f.1 mounted in a pneumatic shutter called automatic with speeds 1 -1/100sec B. & T. Made of wood and aluminium covered in black leather. Butcehr, c.1920.
- Measurements:
-
overall: 210 mm x 151 mm x 53 mm,
- Materials:
- aluminium (metal) , glass , leather and wood (unidentified)
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/622/3
- type:
- plate camera