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Explore objects that trace the invention of and innovation in photography from the 19th century onwards, including a huge selection of cameras spanning decades of technological development.

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Polaroid Land camera Model 95

Photographic Technology

1948-1953

Logitech FotoMan digital camera

Photographic Technology

1990

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Contax S camera

Photographic Technology

1948

Reid III Rangefinder Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1956

Kodak Retina (Type 117)

Photographic Technology

1934-1935

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Kodak "Retina I" camera with Compur rapid shutter, 1935.

Photographic Technology

1935

Camera Lite camera Model B

Photographic Technology

1955

Stereo Realist 2.8 camera

Photographic Technology

1947-1971

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Ilford Witness camera. 35mm camera; coated Dallmeyer Super-Six anastigmat lens

Photographic Technology

c. 1959

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

Box of film for Camera Lite camera Model B

Photographic Technology

1955

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897

Kodak Instamatic 50 camera

Photographic Technology

1963

Kodak Beau Brownie No 2

Photographic Technology

1930-1933

Binocular stereoscopic camera no. 12

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Autoknips II Camera Timer

Photographic Technology

1925-1940

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

LogiTech FotoMan Plus digital camera

Photographic Technology

1992

Mufax Courier transmitter

Photographic Technology

1975

Kodak Retinette IIA Camera, Type 036

Photographic Technology

c.1960

'Junior Special' single lens reflex camera

Photographic Technology

c.1927

Pentona II camera

Photographic Technology

1965

Contax camera

Photographic Technology

1932-1936

Holmes-type stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1905

soho reflex camera, tropical model

Photographic Technology

c. 1923

Ricoh 500G 35mm camera

Photographic Technology

1971

Conway camera, synchronised model

Photographic Technology

c. 1950

Coronet Midget camera

Photographic Technology

1935

Packaging for Camera Lite camera Model B

Photographic Technology

1955

Agfa box camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1930

No 2A Folding Rainbow Hawk-Eye Model B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1932

Minute 16 camera

Photographic Technology

1949

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

Photographic Technology

1841

'Electric Eye' camera model 850 made by Polaroid of Cambridge

Photographic Technology

c.1963

Pathe Cine Camera

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

'All Weather' press camera made by Peeling & Van Neck

Photographic Technology

1945

Anshutz camera made by C.P. Goerz

Photographic Technology

c.1910

Kodak Instamatic 314 camera

Photographic Technology

1964-1974

"Lakeland Fotocol" Colouring Set

Photographic Technology

1960-1969

Weston Photronic Exposure Meter Model 650. Photoelectric exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1935

Kodak Brownie Flash camera

Photographic Technology

1951-1961

Sutton Panoramic Camera

Photographic Technology

1860-1866

Half-plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1860

Four boxes of 'Manchester' rapid dry gelatine plates

Photographic Technology

c.1888

'Universal' Press camera made by Dawe Instruments Ltd

Photographic Technology

1966