Whole-plate studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Cooke Portrait lens fitted Taylor

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection

Whole-plate studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Cooke Portrait lens fitted Taylor, Taylor and Hobson barrel, Series II, F:14 1/2" f/4.5 No 97948; hemispherical bellows shutter behind lens. Sharp-soft focus lens adjustment. Rack rising front; rack focusing on front and back; screw adjustment of front extension bed. Vertical swing back, rack adjusted horizonatal swing back. Fitted with Kodak pattern spring back (not original) for 1/1 plates, with spare Kodak pattern spring back for 1/2 plates.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/7938
Materials:
wood (unidentified), metal (unknown), glass, cardboard and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
Measurements:
overall: 300 mm x 400 mm x 670 mm,
type:
studio camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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