Lancaster See-Saw Shutter

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1884 in Birmingham
maker:
J Lancaster and Son

Before lens shutter for 40mm screwed lens mount, oval shape with two sliding plates with semi circular ends. With a pneumatic release valve, time stops, iris diaphragm before shutter calibrated at 10-30. Lancaster, 1894.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/1246
type:
shutter
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford