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Kodak Gallery

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
Reid III Rangefinder Camera

Reid III Rangefinder Camera

circa 1956
Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

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

Contax S camera

1948
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
Compass miniature camera

Compass miniature camera

1937
Pocket Tripod for Compass Camera

Pocket Tripod for Compass Camera

1937
Model 95 Polaroid Land Camera

Model 95 Polaroid Land Camera

1948
Packaging for Camera Lite camera Model B

Packaging for Camera Lite camera Model B

1955
Camera Lite camera Model B

Camera Lite camera Model B

1955
Box of film for Camera Lite camera Model B

Box of film for Camera Lite camera Model B

1955
Wrayflex camera

Wrayflex camera

1951
Ilford Witness camera. 35mm camera; coated Dallmeyer Super-Six anastigmat lens

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

circa 1959
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
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
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
Mutoscope. International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc, New York. Serial No AB282. Working display item.

Mutoscope. International Mutoscope Reel Co Inc

1930s
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
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

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

Enameled Kodak Hanging Advertising Sign

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

Kodaslide 50 Projector

circa 1955-1970
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
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
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
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
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
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

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
Folding plastic viewer for 45x107mm stereo prints.

Vistascreen 3D viewer

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

Casio QV-10A digital camera

1996
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
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
Flexible printed circuit board from the Canon AE-1, programmable camera.

Flexible Printed Circuit Board from Canon AE1

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
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
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 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
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
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