Kodak No 2 Specialist studio camera, manufactured by Kodak Ltd. 10" x 8" plate camera on Century No 2 stand. As used by photographer Cornel Lucas. With spare dark slide. Fitted with Linhof lens fitting and Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Xenar lens, 1:5,5/500. Camera back inscribed '20N Central 12"x10" 10"x8" 1/1 Pl 1/2 Pl. Bronze plaque on front of camera inscribed 'CORNEL / LUICAS /1946'.

Cornel Lucas' Kodak Studio Camera No. 2 used by Lucas, c. 1950.

Cornel Lucas was a British photographer who photographed many movie stars of the 1940s and 1950s, working first from a studio at Pinewood Studios, then freelance from a studio in Chelsea, London.

Lucas made thousands of photographs of stars such as Brigitte Bardot, Lauren Bacall, Dirk Bogarde, David Niven and Alec Guinness, many of which are in the collection at the National Media Museum.

This Kodak camera was cumbersome, and once placed in Lucas' studio it would not have moved far.