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The objects on display in the Kodak Gallery explore the history of photography, from the invention of photography to the digital revolution.

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Thompson's Revolver Camera

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862
The Demon Detective camera

The Demon Detective camera

1889
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)
Contax S camera

Contax S camera

1948
Reid III Rangefinder Camera

Reid III Rangefinder Camera

circa 1956
Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897
Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858
Kodak Retina (Type 117)

Kodak Retina (Type 117)

1934-1935
Dagron microphotographic camera

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860
LogiTech FotoMan Plus digital camera

LogiTech FotoMan Plus digital camera

1992
Contax camera

Contax camera

1932-1936
Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902
Folding camera for Kodak Instant Print film PR-10; auto exposure; darken-lighten control; brightline finder incorporating coincidence rangefinder; battery test button; flip-flash socket; motorised picture ejection.

Kodak EK8 Instant camera

1977
Silver trophy awarded to Mr Charles Powell as winner of the International Grand Award in the Kodak International Photographic Competition, 1931

Silver trophy awarded to Mr Charles Powell in Kodak International Photographic Competition

1931
The Cine Kodak camera. Hand turned cine camera for 16mm film, 100 foot reels. Fitted with a Kodak anastigmat lens F:25mm f/3.5-16 No.1673. Hand turned, 2 turns per second for 16fps. Provision for attachment of slow motion or electric drive accessories. Direct vision optical finder with automatic parallax compensation. Aperture and focusing adjustable from camera back. Rotating footage counter geared to drive. Claw and single sprocket drive. Spring flap lens cover. Nameplate missing from front. Eastman Kodak, 1923. Serial Number 00697.

The Cine Kodak camera. Hand turned cine camera for 16mm film

1923-
Mutoscope by International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc, NY, USA. Animated peepshow machine for Mutoscope reels; operated by inserting one penny; internal electric lamp. Contains one reel. Advertising frame for 'The Sudden Surprise' - not related to reel. Section of side cut-away to allow view of reel inside . Serial No AB221 (previously shown as AB 3682 on Kodak Form).

Mutoscope by International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc

1920s-1940s
Mutoscope. International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc, New York. Serial No AB282. Working display item.

Mutoscope. International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc

1930s
Camera for disc film, 15 exposures. Electric motor drive; electronic shutter; fixed aperture aspheric lens. Close-up focusing setting; built in electronic flash automatically operated in low light. Built in lithium batteries. Direct vision brightline finder; folding cover/handle. Wrist chain.

Kodak Disc 6000 camera

1982
Sawyer's View-Master 3D Imersion Viewer Model E. Plastic stereo viewer for view master reels. Fixed focus and interocular separation. Lever windon. With 1002 London II View-Master reel.

Sawyer's View-Master 3D Imersion Viewer Model E

Kodaslide 50 Projector; for transparencies. Ektanon lens 4" f3.5. Plug removed.

Kodaslide 50 Projector

circa 1955-1970
Magazine plate camera in form of book, for 38 x 38mm plates. Lens missing, guillotine shutter with tension adjusting knob, plate carried in metal holder then pushed from upper compartment into focal plane and then into the lower compartment by sliding rod. Number on plate holder back visible through red window. No 1742. Marion & Co, 1934. Invented by Dr Rudolf Krugener.

Kruegener's Patent Book Camera No 1510

1884-1894
Kodak DC40 digital camera, 1995. F:2.8 lens, 42mm equiv., 37mm threads, ISO 84. LCD screen, built-in flash. No EKD55201664.

Kodak DC40 digital camera

1995
Enamelled hanging advertising sign. Blue enamelled metal 'All 'Kodak' Supplies' in white. Franco Signs, London, W1.

Enameled Kodak Hanging Advertising Sign

Eumig C4 cine camera. For doublerun 8mm film; Berthiot Perlynx lens F12.5, f/2.5, No 301897. Electric motor drive; DV optical finder.

Eumig C4 8mm Cine Camera

1937-1938
Keystone 8mm camera model K-8. Cine camera for double run 8mm film. Fitted with a Wollensak cine Veliostigmat lens, iris diaphragm f/3.5-16. Screw mount 12, 16, 48 fps, clockwork motor, lock on button. Folding frame finder, direct vision optical finder. Rotary footage indicator. No.887926. Keystone.

Keystone 8mm camera model K-8

1937
Folding stand camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Lancaster patent lens with iris disphragm: f/10; rising and cross front, swing back; track and pinion focusing on lens panel; ground glass screen in Lancaster patent swing-out mount.

Lancaster 1893 Instantograph camera

1893
Box camera for darkroom loaded rollfilm with 24 exposures, 4 x 5 inches. Fitted with a single lens, rotating plate with three apertures, special sector shutter, slow-fast adjustment, cocked by string, sliding focusing to 6 feet. With two reflecting finders. Of polished wood. With exposure count No 1066. Eastman Kodak, 1891-1895.

'C' Ordinary Kodak camera

1891-1895
Folding camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a Kodar lens, f7.9-32, number 0 Kodex shutter 25/50/T/B. Screw focusing; brilliant reflecting rotating finder, autographic back, black pattern leatherette covering. No 51701. Eastman Kodak 1926-1934.

Vest Pocket Kodak Series III Camera

1926-1934
Stereo camera for 120 rollfilm 2 x 24x24mm. Can take single or duplex albums. Two Iriar lenses F35mm f/3.5 Nos 11349 and 11832. 5 speed shutter 1/10 - 1/200 attached lens cap; optical DV finder; X and M coaxial flash soickets. Two windows. Serial No 6182.

Duplex Super 120 sterocamera

1956-1960
Plastic body collapsing camera for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture. T/I shutter and a rotating reflecting brilliant finder. Patent 330438/29. Soho Limited.

Soho Model B Folding camera

Kodak Kodascope 8 Model 30 projector. For 8mm film 200 feet reels, claw intermittent, 2 sprockets. Motor speed control, lamp switch, for 110 or 240 volts.

Kodak Kodascope 8 Model 30 projector. For 8mm film 200 feet reels

circa 1948
Instant camera for PR10 instant film packs; 'Zooming Circle' focusing aid in finder; darken-lighten control; auto-exposure; built-in electronic flash. Brown plastic.

Kodak EK300 instant camera

Minolta Pocket Autopak pocket camera for 110 cartridge film; Auto exposure; focusing scale visible in brightline finder; magicube socket; closeup lens with yellow filter indicator in finder; low level light; No 113370.

Minolta Pocket Autopak 70 camera

1977
Medal, Irish Salon of Photography, 1933. Awarded to Stanley A Smith. Medal in shape of Ireland. In case; printed on fabric of lid 'W. Stokes and Sons Limited, Jewellers, Silversmiths and Watchmaker, 6 Westmullend Street, Dublin'.

Medal, Irish Salon of Photography

1933
Folding plastic viewer for 45x107mm stereo prints.

Vistascreen 3D viewer

Plastic body box camera for stereo, 127 rollfilm 2 x 2 x 1 5/8 inches. Fitted with two meniscus lenses of fixed aperture. Lever cocked instantaneous double shutter. Covering blade on No 1 lens permits single exposures. 'binocular Viewfinder', double binocular direct vision optical finders. Double socket flash contact. Instructions on back plate. Serial No D87476.

Coronet 3D camera

1953
90x97mm dark brown union case by S. Peck (Trade Paper on back says 'S Peck's Patent Feb 5th 1856 - H. Halverson's patent Aug 7th 1855 - assigned to S. Peck'). Die cast by H. W. Hayden, from picture by Sir Thomas Lawrence 'The Calmady Children'. Shows two young girls close up in a field. Back is mostly plain with grape design in centre and leaf design in four corners. Lined with purple plush with formal motif. Oval gilt patterned matt. Pinchbeck frame. 60x70mm collodion positive by J. TImms, 31 High Holborn, London. Three quarter young gentleman seated almost full face. Some tinting. Nice trade card backing picture.

Rectangular Union Case by S Peck 'The Calmady Children'

circa 1853
Casio QV-10A digital camera, Serial Number 4015575A. LCD screen. Tiffen 37mm + 4 lens, made in Japan.

Casio QV-10A digital camera

1996
Magazine box camera for notched cut films 2 1/2 x 3 /12 inches. Fitted with a beck Steinheil Orthostigmat lens No. 10395 US 8-255, four apertures in rotating plate. Rotary shutter 5/10/20/40/ aperture and shutter setting visible through lens. Shutter set through panel in base. With two reflecting finders, spirit level in film change handle with two Taylor Taylor Hobson double levels added. Covered in stitched calf leather with gilt fittings. R & J Beck.

De Luxe Frena camera

circa 1892
Ivory letter opener in form of a cricket bat with a Stanhope lens in the handle with six photographs by Mckee of Dublin, 'The Town from Weargall Hill', 'St. Joseph's Chapel', 'St John's Church', 'The Pilgrim's inn', 'The Abbott's Kitchen and 'the abbey'. Entitled 'A Memory of Glastonbury'.

Letter opener with Stanhope lens

Folding bellows camera for 116 rollfilm 2 1/2 x 4 1/4". Simple lens, US 116-128. Wollensak Optical Co shutter T/I/B. Brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard, reversible. Sliding focusing, with 3 position preset stop. Patent 20 September 1910.

No 2A Folding Buster Brown Camera Model A

1910
Flexible printed circuit board from the Canon AE-1, programmable camera.

Flexible Printed Circuit Board from Canon AE1

Made by Lionel; Linex Corporation New York. Subminiature stereo camera using special 16mm film in magazine, film moved by pulling film tab. With instructions and specimen strip. Serial No 110409.

Linex Stereo Camera

1954
Folding camera for 118 rollfilm 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with a Kodak anastigmat lens, F:127mm F?6.3-45, No 104717. No 1 Kodex shutter, 25/50/T/B with cable release. Lever focusing, screw rising front. Brilliant reflecting finder, (front lens missing). Autographic back. No 20021.

No 3 Kodak Series III camera

1931-1933
Puma 120 roll film camera, "Plus", boxed. Made by Puma Cameras Ltd. Purma Anastigmat lens 55mm f/6.3. With metal lens cap.

Puma 'Plus' 120 roll film camera

1950-1959
Reflex Korelle camera. Single lens reflex camera for 120 rollfilm. Schneider Radionar lens f:7.5cm, f2.9, Serial Number 1174589, screw mount fabric focal plane shutter 1-1/500 sec. Delayed action, lever window, frame finder. Overall (deployed): 150 mm x 140 mm x 100 mm.

Reflex-Korelle single lens reflex camera

1935
Plastic bodied box camera for 127 rollfilm 4 x 6.5cm. Fitted with a Rodenstock lens, f/11 sliding plate with three apertures. B/I rotary shutter. Two reflecting finders. Made in Germany.

Merit box camera

1930-1940
Ansco Co, Binghampton. Box camera for 127 rollfilm 2 1/2 x 1 5/8". Simple lens, fixed aperture. Flip-flop rotary shutter, T/I. Two reflecting finders. Covered with maroon leatherette wwith gilt trim. Pat. Sept. 20 1910.

No 0 Buster Brown Box Camera

1910-1915
Kodak advertising poster: 'Take a Kodak with You'. Designed by George Walton c. 1905. Kodak girl on the beach.

Take a Kodak with You

circa 1905
Trademark triangle containing AG over sunset. Box form magazine camera for 9 x 12cm plates rapid rectilinear lens sliding plate with two apertures, fixed focus. Two reflecting finders with hoods. Plate in carriers help horizontally in upper compartment swinging into focal plane when knob on camera front is pulled. Three plate holders. No 3805.

Krugener's Delta Camera

1892