1889 Instantograph

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1889 in Birmingham

maker:: J Lancaster and Son

Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster achromatic lens F:5 1/2 inch. iris diaphragm calibrated f.10 to 300, time. Sliding, rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing. The double extension bellows are rotten. Swing back and ground glass screen. In Lancaster patent swing out back. J Lancaster and Son. 1889

Details

Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/789

type:: plate camera

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

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