'The Challenge' a tropical folding bellows hand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 by J Lizards
- maker:
- J Lizars, J and John Henry Dallmeyer
'The Challenge' a tropical folding bellows hand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 by J Lizards, England, c. 1908. Fitted with Dallmeyer shutter and lens. With drop front. Rack and pinion focusing. With brilliant waist level viewfinder. Lens is a Dallmeyer Stigmatic f.6.3 12mm Series 11 mounted in a pneumatic Ibsor shutter, speeds - 1/100 sec B. & T. Of mahogany with brass fittings. Lizars, c.1910
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Arthur Frank Collection
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/3
- Materials:
- wood (unidentified), ivory, mahogany (wood), leather, brass (copper, zinc alloy), metal (unknown), glass and nickel plated
- Measurements:
-
overall: 150 mm x 160 mm x 310 mm,
- type:
- folding bellows camera
- credit:
- The Arthur Frank Collection
Parts
One double dark slide. J Lizars
One double dark slide. J Lizars, c.1910
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/3/2
- type:
- darkslide
'The Challenge' Tropical Folding Bellows Hand Camera for Negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4
'The Challenge' a tropical folding bellows hand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 by J Lizards, England, c. 1908. Fitted with Dallmeyer shutter and lens. With drop front. Rack and pinion focusing. With brilliant waist level viewfinder. Lens is a Dallmeyer Stigmatic f.6.3 12mm Series 11 mounted in a pneumatic Ibsor shutter, speeds - 1/100 sec B. & T. Of mahogany with brass fittings. Lizars, c.1910
- Measurements:
-
overall: 151 mm x 153 mm x 257 mm, 1.27 kg
- Materials:
- brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass , ivory , leather , mahogany (wood) , metal (unknown) , nickel plated and wood (unidentified)
- Object Number:
- 1979-559/3/3
- type:
- folding bellows camera
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
