Stereoscopic Camera

Wood framed folding stereoscopic camera by J.T. Chapman, c.1880. This camera was popular for amateur use. It was constructed on the principles of Brewster and Dancer. The use of the 3" focus 'Platystigmat' wide angle lenses made the camera less bulky and could also aid the construction of a camera at a cheap price. With extra lens panel and lens it could be used as a half-plate camera.

Model B Cine Camera

16mm model B cine camera by Eastman Kodak Co. Metal body with Morocco leather covering (black). Hand wound with one Kodak lens.

Stamped metal label on top of case: "Made in U.S.A. at Rochester by Eastman Kodak Co. Cine Kodak Model B. K.A., f3. 5 Footage". Stamped metal label on front near lens: "Use portrait attachment for close ups. From 2 to 5 feet.". Stamped metal label on front below lens: Explains which settings to use in different light conditions. Stamped on film spool: "Kodak Made in England"

Tenax Folding Plate Camera

Tenax folding plate camera by Goerz; a popular camera for the advanced amateur of this period.

"Scott's Patent" Plate Camera

The Manchester/Scott's patent plate camera, c.1890. Mahogany camera with brass fittings. Rise and cross panel Wray 'Platystigmat' wide angle 4" focus with disc stops rack focus. Various reinforcing details suggests Billcliffe manufacture. With one D/D slide side struts slotted according to the Chapman/Scott patent to provide swing back.

Label on side of camera: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester". Label on front of camera below lens mount: "Scott's patent, No. 12389"

Camera

Walnut wood and brass fitting single extension camera. No other movements except small rising front and Scott type drop front. Fitted with 3" (7.6cm) Wray 'Platystigmat' wide angle lens of the period 1902, one double dark slide. Not very important except that it possibly is an example of what Isaac Billcliffe called a miniature camera. It did not become popular as by this time the 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 size was being developed as a folding camera by Kodak and Ensign from he 1/4 plate size with pneumatic bladed shutters of that period.

Cardboard box camera

A cardboard box with a single meniscus lens with a small aperture together with a folded envelope to contain a plate. Exposure was by a movable cap. An interesting (but not rare) sample of an attempt to provide a cheap camera for the of children and seaside snapshotters. Date made c 1882 from note in box.

Camera body for stereo photography

Camera body for stereo photography. Unpolished walnut box with lens panel fixed and bored for two lenses (possibly from 3" (7.6 cm) wide angle). This might be an experimental prototype for the Chapman "Swiss" half plate to Stereo convertible camera (see Y1966.28.40).

Plate camera

Plate camera. Walnut 1/4 plate camera with one double dark slide. With brass fittings single extension/rising front fitted with Wray platystigmat wide angle lens with rotary stops. Standard folding hand/stand camera.

"The Artists" Plate Camera

The 'Artists' bellows plate camera made by J.L. Lane of London in around 1880. Sold by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester. Walnut wood camera, square bellows rise and cross front. (Lane type) swing back. (lane type) folding side member. Rack focus, single extension. Dallmeyer 5" (13 cm) anastigmat. Disc stops pneumatic drop shutter. This is a small hand/stand camera made to the same specification as the Y1966.28.11.1 by Lane. The Lane features are the folding base and side plate and the lock screws for the rising and cross. Also the shaped brass plate at the rear controlling the swing back.

Folding stereoscopic camera

Folding stereoscopic camera, twin bellows, single lens f.11, wood body, leather covered. Sold by Kodak, made in the United States post 1900. No great historical value except as a cheap model for stereo work with roll film.

Folding stereoscopic camera

A folding stereoscopic camera with drop baseboards. Wood covered with leather. Marked 'Hawkeye'. Lens panel of metal with two Kodak R/R lenses coupled pneumatic shutter release. Manual scale focusing.

Zeiss Ikon Foldable Plate Camera

ICA 'Ideal' 250/7 drop-front bellows plate camera, made by Zeiss Ikon, 1929. Folding, all metal and leather camera with rise and cross front double extension. Mirror and frame view finders. Single metal dark slides. Lens panels to take various lenses with special Zeiss fitting. No lens. This camera shows the beginning of design in aluminum with made for smaller dimensions and greater mechanical accuracy together with facilities for interchangeable lenses. This type of camera was very popular with advanced amateurs.

Brownie 'O' box camera

Brownie '0' metal box camera to take size 127 films. Single meniscus lens f.11, everyday snapshot shutter. Japanned metal.

Kodak folding camera

Folding camera, single meniscus lens with everset single speed and time shutter disc diaphram, focal lenght 10". Kodak Ltd, 1920 onwards. Metal body, covered in leather.

Carbine camera

Folding hand stand camera, Houghton Butcher Ltd, c. 1935. Rising and cross front with double extension. Rack focusing. Fitted with Dallmeyer series IV, No1 f.6.5 and Goers "ibso" shutter, fully speeded. British made camera to supply the advanced amateur field with a metal bodied camera to match the continental models. Leather covered metal body.

No. 3A Autographic Folding Camera

No 3A Autographic folding camera , Eastman Kodak c. 1925. Fitted with a Taylor Hobson 12" f6.3 Anastigmat in Compur shutter. Autographic model giving a postcard size on 122 size film. Metal body, leather covered.

Magazine Box Camera

Fixed-focus, hand-held magazine box camera with a leather plate changing bag by Samuels.

Folding plate camera

Portable folding 1/4 plate camera, with bellows simple single lens, baseboard missing. Wood.

drop-front bellows plate camera

Hand or stand camera with brass fittings made to Billcliffe method of swing back. Wray 3" Platystigmat lens, one dark slide. Mahogany wood. The smallest size of hand/stand camera made by Billcliffe. considered by him to be a 'Miniature'.

Folding plate camera

Folding camera with Beck symetrical lens in Goerz shutter. Camera opens to horizontal format, 3/4 plate folding camera, leather covered.

Ticka camera

Watch camera known as a 'Ticker' camera. Nickle plated. Early form of sub-minature camera, sometimes called detective camera.

'Merlin' Miniature Camera

'Merlin' sub-miniature metal camera, made by United Optical Instruments.

Prototype stereoscopic camera

Prototype stereoscopic camera, designed and made by John Benjamin Dancer, Manchester, c.1852.

Camera, 1/4 plate hand or stand camera with rack focusing

Camera, 1/4 plate hand or stand camera with rack focusing. Fitted with Darlot lens with Iris diaphragm. Scott type swing back. One dark slide. Miller's patent T/P type roller blind shutter. Light weight of modest price, for amateur price.

"The Manchester" Plate Camera

The 'Manchester' plate camera designed and sold by J. T. Chapman Ltd in around 1883; it was probably made by Joshua Billcliff.

Camera

Fixed focus camera with Wray 3" lens, hand or stand camera. 1 dark slide. Mahogany. Early form of fixed focus camera for amateur.

Quarter Plate Camera

Double-extension bellows hand-stand camera with 1/4 inch plate.

Roller-Blind Shutter

Roller-blind shutter with original box made by Thornton-Pickard Limited.

Camera for 1/1 plates. Scott patent swing back 2 double dark slides

Camera for 1/1 plates. Scott patent swing back 2 double dark slides, double extension Dallmeyer 12" lens with waterhouse stops., mahogany wood. Large format camera for use by amateurs and small studios.

Tailboard Plate Camera

Folding bellows tailboard camera by Meagher, with Dallmeyer lens.

"The British" Plate Camera

"The British" plate camera, and separate lens, made by J.T. Chapman Limited.

Billcliff "Royalty" Plate Camera

'Royalty' bellows plate camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester.

Inscription engraved on brass pointer at side: "Royalty". Inscription carved inside camera back (at base of plate holder): "1 C". Inscription handwritten on reverse of camera back: "Chapman". Inscription engraved on two lenses: "Ross, London, 12818, 12819". Stamped label on top of camera body: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester"

Chapman 'British' camera made

Chapman 'British' camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester in around 1890.

Lane Tailboard Camera

A "Chapman's model" plate camera, made by J.L. Lane.

Roll film dark slide

Dark slide to take roll of film 6 1/2" wide, made by Kodak in Rochester united states. 1895 - 1900, wood with brass fitting (no backing paper). An early form of dark slide to accomodate large format celluloid roll film. The film was loaded by the makers and the whole dark slide was supposed to be returned for the development. Alternatively the roll could be wrapped in black paper for return and replacement put in using dark room. Mainly used by professional photographers.

"Bijou" Box Camera

"Bijou" cardboard box plate camera.

"Bee" Magazine Camera

"Bee" wooden magazine box camera by W. Butcher & Sons, with a Wray lens.

Magazine camera

Magazine camera, level focusing on side, T/P shutter on lens panel, Dallmeyer 1/4 plate "Stygmatic", wood covered, brass fittings. Later model magazine camera. Although it is listed as a hand camera it also has a focusing screen and is used with double dark slides. A transitional type form the hand/stand camera with various movements. This approaches the snapshot type box form hand camera but uses plates instead of roll film.

Ensign E20 Roll-Film Box Camera

An Ensign E20 box roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

Ensign "Klito" Magazine Camera

An Ensign-brand "Klito" No. 0 magazine camera, with 12 plate holders, made by Houghtons Limited.

box roll-film camera

No 4 'Regular' box roll film camera made by Eastman Kodak Ltd, Rochester, USA in around 1895.

Pocket Kodak Box Camera

Pocket Kodak box camera by Eastman Kodak Company

Box camera

Roll film box camera, single lens time and instant shutter taking negatives 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 ". Kodak number K/114. Made in England, 1929. Morrocco covered wood. The smallest box Brownie.

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester in around 1904. Fitted with a Wray R/R lens and T/P shutter, speeded 1/15th to 1/90th sec 1/4 plate negatives. With large detachable view finder, lever focusing. Flap front. These models have the focusing lever for left hand working, behind the large view finder. late model of the Miller patent magazine camera. The flap front and large view finder distinguish it from the 1890 model.

"British" Magazine Camera

A "British" (Miller's patent) quarter-plate magazine camera, made by Billcliff & Sons for J.T. Chapman, with a Wray lens.

Plate camera

Camera, with Chapham design for swing back (angled side plate) with brass fittings made in Manchester after 1890 up to 1909. Single extension, rack focusing (front focusing) with three double dark slides. Camera and double dark slide reinforced at corners with bakelite. The early model made personally by Isaac Billcliff had th letters I B in the frame beneath the ground glass screen and on the dark slide. The I B models are rare. This camera was the property of a lady who took photographs of the families of soldiers in the first world war.

Stereo Hawkeye Model 3 Camera

Eastman Kodak Stereo Hawkeye model 3 camera, with Bausch & Lomb rapid rectilinear lenses.

Stereo Brownie Camera

A No. 2 Stereo Brownie camera model A, by Eastman Kodak.

Stereoscopic camera

Camera with rising front, scale focusing range finder. Compur shutter, speeded 1 to 1/200 seconds. Zeiss/Kodak lens f6.5, 15cm focus. Rising front metal lens panel. Autographic feature. Kodak "Autographic Special" 3.A. Metal and leather camera made in USA in 1916. Using 116 size film. The autographic type was withdrawn in 1934. While the first date manufacture was 1916 this camera may have been made after 1928 at Harrow.

Folding roll film autographic camera

Autographic camera, Kodak series II, Kodak lens "Kodar" f7.9 front cell focusing 130cm lens, made in Harrow in 1929. One of the first Harrow made Kodak autograohic cameras. Series I was made in 1928. Metal and leather camera.

Lizars' "Challenge" Foldable Camera

A "Challenge" foldable bellows camera, with Beck symmetrical lens and a Goerz shutter.

Kodak Six-20 Junior Camera

A Model D Six-20 Kodak Junior folding camera, with Kodon shutter.

Ensign Folding Roll-Film Camera

Ensign folding roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Coompany Limited.

Ernemann A-6 Camera

A-6 plate camera by Ernemann Werke.

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera, made by Zeiss-Ikon AG, Dresden, Germany, c. 1935.

"Ticka" Detective Camera

"Ticka" detective camera made by Houghtons Ltd, with original cardboard box and instructions leaflet.

Camera with folding bellows using 116 film giving 16 exposures lens

Camera with folding bellows using 116 film giving 16 exposures lens. "Ensar" anastigmat f4.5 shutter speeds. Metal camera made by Houghtons, pre 1940. Small folding camera of pre-war design using 116 film giving 16 exposures.

Folding plate camera

Folding plate camera, lens Goerz anastigmat f6.8 12cm focus. "Ibsor" shutter speeds 1 to 1/100th second. Rise and cross front. Rack focus with four single dark slides. Four single metal dark slides in leather case. Good quality pre 1914 German manufacture with moderate lens aperture, very popular amateur camera.

Camera

A single casting od black enamelled with a single meniscus lens and preset shutter using 16mm cine camera. An early attempt at making a sub minature camera.

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera, made by W. Butcher & Sons Ltd Ltd, London, c. 1925. From accession form: Metal leather roll film camera for 1/4 plate size. Dallmeyer Carfac lens f6.5 15cm focus. Lukos shutter (Ibsor type) Rise & cross front. Double extension rack focussing.

Graflex Plate Magazine

Graflex plate magazine with leather hood for changing plate, made by Folmer Graflex Corporation.

Camera Plate Holders

Eleven metal plate holders with dark slides. One wood plate holder and three adaptors for camera backs by various makers.

Cut film pack adaptor

Cut film pack adaptor. Wood framed with aluminium sheath cut film pack adapter "premo" type.

Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic folding camera, sold by Joseph J. Pyne of Manchester. From accession form: Mahogany stereo camera (folding with brass lens flanges and swinging shutter. Marked on the top with J J Pyne Piccadilly and at base. J T Chapham Deansgate. Two fixed focus landscape lenses. The camera closed has a base board that fits under a shelf in the box, over this shelf is the space for the dark slides. This camera seems to have been made for sale by J J Pynes and taken over by J T Chapham when he started on his own at the Deansgate shop.

Camera lens

Camera lens made by W.I. Chadwick of Manchester in around 1880.

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York in around 1862. From accession form: An early for of wide angle lens. With less covering power than the Sutton panoramic water lens if is better corrected for astigmatism and chromatic aberations, though it suffers from distortion on the edges of the field. An advanced form of this construction with special curves for the two lenses but with much smaller apertures can be seen in the Goerz Hypergon which covers 130 degrees as against the 90 degrees of this lens.

Camera Flap Shutter

Large wooden flap shutter.

Stereo Flap Shutter

Wood flap shutter for stereoscopic camera.

Camera Shutter

Wooden drop-type shutter. Simple shutter for short exposures.

Noton Camera Shutter

Instantaneous 'go and return' camera shutter by M. Noton.

Flip-Flap Shutter

Metal snapshot or flip-flap shutter.

Front panel and shutter

Front panel and shutter from a magazine camera. Historical importance; none except to show the mechanism.

Aperture Control Stops

Set of six Waterhouse stops in case by W. Hume. From accession form: A form of aperture control that gives very accurate sizes. The metal plates fitted into a gap in the lens.

Camera Mounting Plates

Four wood and brass lens mounting plates. As mounted this served as a lens panel to accommodate lenses of different diameters. It could be used as a variable aperture used before the lens. Useful piece of studio apparatus to permit the use of different lenses and also to control aperture.

Lens

Aluminum anastigmatic lens f4.5 4" focus. made from 1910 onwards. Early use of aluminum. The lens of Tessar type.

Telephoto Lens

Aluminum telephoto lens with rack focusing by Dallmeyer.

Pneumatic Camera Shutter

Pneumatic drop shutter; wood drop shutter with pneumatic (bulb) operation. Shutter designed for silent action at slow speeds.

Convertible anastigmatic series VII lens

Ross brass lens with single Zeiss type anastigmat f.11 15" focus. Series VII no. 4. Iris diaphragm. One of the early type anastigmats using the new Schott glasses. Four glasses in one lens. When used with a similar lens this became the type VII.a with aperture of f 6.3

Double astigmatic series no. VII lens

Ross double astigmatic series no. VII lens. Brass lens 15" focus f.11. Symmetrical lens made up from two Goerz type anastigmats with disc aperture control. A lens that was used mainly for architectural work as it was a semi wide angle lens with no distortion.

Symmetrical Doublet Lens

Symmetrical doublet lens by E. Suter. Brass lens symmetrical construction of two achromatic lenses using old type glasses. 12" focus f11. Late type R/R for architectural work.

Wray landscape lens

Wray brass single landscape lens. Late type single landscape lens.

Dallmeyer landscape lens

Brass Dallmeyer landscape lens No. 2. 12 2 focus f16 waterhouse stops. Late type single landscape lens. With one waterhouse stop marked according to the Dallmeyer standard No. 50 which equals approx f.22.

Achromatic Landscape Lens

Achromatic landscape camera lens made by Lerebours & Secretan. Typical landscape lens of this period by maker of long standing reputation in France.

Ross rapid landscape lens No 2

Ross rapid landscape lens No 2, brass mounted with rack focusing. No. 3106. 12" focus aperture f12. Typical long focus for landscape work to cover whole plate format.

Brass mounted lens

Brass mounted R/R lens by Voigtlander with disc stops. Including flange. One of the earliest R/R symmetrical lenses using the Schott glasses.

Dallmeyer Landscape Lens

Rapid landscape lens by J.H. Dallmeyer; 14" focus aperture f.16.

Rapid Symmetrical Lens

Brass-mounted rapid symmetrical lens by Ross & Co. Ltd; 7 1/2 " focus f8 with Waterhouse stops.

Dallmeyer Ib R/R lens with Iris diaphragm

Dallmeyer Ib R/R lens with Iris diaphragm. 4" focus aperture f.8 with lens flange.

Landscape Camera Lens

Brass-mounted landscape lens made by Emil Busch; achromatic cell rear 5" focus f.16 Iris diaphragm.

Darlot Landscape Lens

Brass-mounted landscape-type camera lens by Darlot, with cap; focus 5" f.11 Iris diaphragm.

Dallmeyer brass mounted R/R lens

Dallmeyer brass mounted R/R lens for 1/4 plate format. Waterhouse stops. 5" focus aperture f.8. R/R lens for small hand/stand camera.

Brass Landscape Lens

Camera lens made by Lerebours and Secretan of Paris in around 1870. Brass landscape lens with disc aperture at front and lever exposure rack focus 6" approx. Apertures f.11 to 32. Interesting because of the position of the aperture control and the lever shutter.

Stereoscopic Lenses

Two stereoscopic lenses by Wray. Pair of matched stereoscopic lenses in case for use with Waterhouse stops. Focal length 5" largest aperture f.12. As stereoscopic lenses had to be accurately matched they were sold in cases like this. Normally they were paired landscape type lenses.

Engraved on lens barrel of first lens: "Wray, London, 5in Stereo : No. 6187". Stamped on disc stops of first lens: non-linear apertures, 5 settings, f11-f45. Engraved on lens barrel of second lens: "Wray London 5in stereo No. 6186". Painted on wheel stop of second lens: aperture numbers

Laverne Rectilinear Lens

Brass mounted rapid rectilinear lens made by Laverne & Co., for 1/4 plate size; these lenses were made specifically for J.T. Chapman Ltd.

Wray Wide-Angle Rectilinear Lens

Brass-mounted wide-angled rectilinear lens made by Wray, 6 1/2" focus. Aperture f.11; listed in the 1889 Wray catalogue as the fastest landscape-type lens.

Wray Landscape Lens

Brass-mounted landscape camera lens made by Wray; disc diaphragm f.16 to f.64, with leather cap.

Goerz Camera Shutter

Camera shutter made by Goerz c.1900. Aluminum framed shutter with pneumatic release. Fitted with Steinhill anastigmatic lens 4 1/2" focus f. 6.8. This type of shutter with iris diaphragm and pneumatic release became the standard mounting in the early 20th century. The shutters were made to take the ranges of lenses made by the various manufacturers and were normally folded to the folding cameras.

Stamped on front shutter mounting; "C.P. Goerz Berlin D.R.P." Stamped on front lens surround: "Beck-Steinheil convertible orthostigmat patent No. 12949 series II No. Focus 4 1/2""