The Academy Camera No 2

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1886 in London
maker:
Marion & Co.

Magazine box camera for 2 x 2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, of fixed focus and aperture, viewfinder lens focusing on ground glass at rear of camera, both lenses on a common panel, slid by rod and knob at rear. Rotary shutter 12 plates carried in sliding magazine below camera body. Rack and pinion drive brings each plate in turn under slot below focal plane. Spring loaded slide allows plate to fall into magazine. Marion and Co.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/1198
Materials:
mahogany (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), white metal (unknown) and bone
Measurements:
overall: 195 mm x 105 mm x 220 mm,
type:
twin lens camera, magazine camera, plate camera and box camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford