Ticka Detective Camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1901-1911 in London

maker:: Houghtons Limited

Watch form detective camera for 18mm wide rollfilm 25 exposures, 22 x 17mm. Simple lens, fixed focus and aperture, sliding shutter T/I self capping. Lens in "winding stem" with cap attached by chain brilliant reflecting finder, as accessory automatic exposure counter. Houghtons Limited, c.1906

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/1187

type:: detective camera

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

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Ticka detective camera orignal carton

Ticka detective camera original carton. Houghtons Limited, c.1906

A very popular metal miniature camera in the form of a pocket watch. It was designed to use roll film, 17.5mm wide, contained in a special cardboard drop-in cartridge. The lens, carried in the winding stem, had to be covered by a screw-on cap between exposures. No viewfinder was fitted but a clip-on finder was available as an optional extra.

The Ticka camera was introduced in 1905 and offered for sale until approximately 1914. The camera was a licensed copy of the Expo Watch camera, made by the Expo Camera Company in the United States.