Vega No 1 camera

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1900

Side folding camera for 9 x 6.5cm plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, sliding plate with two apertures, I/B shutter cocked by a plate changing mechanism and two brilliant reflecting finders. The camera is flat when closed and opens sideways by bellows construction to a triangular shape with the lens at the apex. 12 plated are carried in the holders in the pivoted frame, the exposed plates is transferred to the bottom of the pack by opening and closing the camera. With an exposure counter.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/1987
type:
plate camera and folding camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford