Optimus Camera Deluxe

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1894 in London

maker:: Perken, Son & Rayment

Optimus camera made by Perken, Son and Co. Folding bellows box camera for 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 plates. Euryscope rapid detective lens f8-32, F:4 1/2". Thornton-Pickard TI shutter 15-90/sec. Rack and pinion focussing. Swing back. With three wooden double darkslides. (M 4165)

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/431

type:: folding camera

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

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