Rover Detective camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1893 in Birmingham

maker:: J Lancaster and Son

Magazine box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an achromatic lens, fixed aperture and focus, Lancaster seesaw shutter reflecting viewfinder, plates in frame holders (12), carried horizontally in upper compartment, transferred to focal plane by tilting base to compartment, after exposure moved to back of camera behind flexible wooden shutter. Lancaster, 1893.

Details

Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/1192

Materials:: glass and wood

type:: detective camera and magazine camera

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

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