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Flash tray for magnesium powder with a clockwork mechanism that rotates striking wheel acting on flint. Released by a cable release. With detachable handle or table stand. Agfa, c.1923. DRP 230110.

Agfa flashlamp

Photographic Technology

1918-1928
SMC Pentax-M f1;2.8-4 40mm-80mm zoom lens no.7549226. With plastic lens cap.

SMC Pentax-M f2.8 40mm-80mm Zoom Lens

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Made in Germany for Realist Inc, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stereo camera for 35mm film 23x23mm square. Steiheil Cassar S lenses, F:35mm, f/3.5-16, Nos 1423652, 1426554. Vero shutters 25/50/100/200/B. Direct vision optical finder. Film type reminder. Using instructions, exposure tables etc on bottom. Lever wind. 'Hot' accessory shoe. Enamel exposure table. Neck strap. Serial No 357819 257. In everready case.

Iloca Stereo Rapid camera

Photographic Technology

1955
Packaging for pocket camera for 110 cartridge film; plastic box with transparent lid; instruction booklet; fabric wriststrap; empty 24 exposure 110 Kodacolor II film cartridge.

Packaging For Kodak Pocket Instamatic 200 camera

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A black and white photograph entitled ‘Shells bursting on Seki Baba’, taken by an unknown photographer at Gallipoli, about 1915, from an album of photographs in the Kodak collection, page 27.

Shells bursting on Seki Baba

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1915-1916
Cardboard wallet 'Illingworth's Slow Gas Print and Film Wallet'.

Illingworth's Slow Gas Print And Film Wallet

Photographic Technology

1924
Chemist Shop Case. No.2C Pocket Kodak Camera. Eastman Kodak; A130 film, 2 7/8x4 7/8 in. Kodar Achromat lens, iris diaphragm Kodex shutter 25/50/T/B. No.1. Screw focussing 30 metres-2 metres. Black leatherette covering, black leather bellows. Autographic back. With cable release. No.11389.

No 2C Pocket Kodak camera

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1925-1932
Made in Germany by Steineck Kamerawerk. Subminiature camera for discs of film 25mm diameter, 8 exposures 7mm diameter. Steinhetl VI lens F:12.5mm f/2.8 fixed aperture, coated cobir enamel. Two-speed rotary shutter. Refelcting finder - concave mirror and ball and pin sight. Wristwatch shaped, on green leather strap. In case. Could be Steiner-Optik GmbH?. Designed in Germany by Dr R Steineck.

Steineck ABC wristwatch camera

Photographic Technology

1949
Kodak Digital Science DC20 digital imaging camera, 1996. Serial Number EKP61400617.

Kodak Digital Science DC20 digital imaging camera

Photographic Technology

1996
95x120mm red Morocco leather case with two latches. Plain red plush lining. Rectangular gilt mat with rounded top corners. Bound but not framed. 67x92mm daguerreotype three quarter length portrait of middle aged lady seated with dog in her lap. Skirt of dress covered with pink roses. Pink roses in her hair. Rest fully tinted with gilt on ring, necklace and brooch.

Daguerreotype In Red Morocco Case

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Folding stand triple extension camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-45 No. 40668 (Aldis). Thornton Pickard Time and Instantaneous shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front, sliding cross and falling front. Swing front and back. Reversible back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels with triple extension. Built in tripod turntables. Separate tripod legs. Thornton-Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

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1905-1915
Plastic bodied camera for 126 cartridge 28 x 28mm. Fitted with a 43mm moulded fixed focus lens f/11. 2 speed shutter marked for bright sun and hazy sun flash. Direction vision optical finder. Shoe with flash contacts. Wind-on knob interlocked with shutter. With wrist strap. Kodak Limited. 1966-1971.

Kodak Instamatic 25 camera

Photographic Technology

1966-1971
Beck-Steinheil Orthostigmat lens. Series IV No.1, F2.87" F12-45. No. 12849. Fitted to 1990-5036/2927, W Watson & Sons quarterplate stand camera.

Beck-Steinheil Orthostigmat lens

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Folding camera for 118 rollfilm 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Rapid rectilinear lens, sliding plate with three apertures, built in rotary shutter, separate releases for T & I. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder with hood, sliding focusing. NO 24523. Eastman Kodak 1900-1903

No 3 folding pocket Kodak model A

Photographic Technology

1900-1903
Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. 43mm lens flange, on 67 x 100mm removable panel. Sliding rising front on lens panel and on front. Swing front and back. Rack and pinion focusing on back. Pendulum level on back. Reversible back, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Dark red leather bellows. With a Cooke Series III lens ( H D Taylor's patent). F:5.5inches, f/6.5-45, Taylor, Taylor Hobson No. 9828. Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. With two lens caps. No.4205.

The Sanderson camera

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Folding camera for instant pictures 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Coated lens. Front cell focusing. Wheel stops, coupled with shutter, EV 11-18 with B facility. Direct vision optical finder. Flash synchronised, hot shoe. No. LC 550030. Polaroid Corporation. Supplied by Hambletons, 3 Norwich Union House, Western Road, Romford.

Polaroid Land Camera Model 80B

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1954
Halina Rolls 35mm. camera with 45mm f3.5 Halina anastigmat lens and original manufacturer's carton, c. 1963.

Instruction Booklet For Halina Rolls 35mm Camera

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1963-1964
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

Photographic Technology

1956-1960
Kodaslide 50 Projector; for transparencies. Ektanon lens 4" f3.5. Plug removed.

Kodaslide 50 Projector

Cinematography
Justophot Automatic Drem Exposure Meter. Telescope-type meter; scales for time, speed and aperture; in leather case; in original box with instructions. White metal tube with eye-piece. box also contains leather case, abridged instructions and full instructions booklet. Patentee Dr Emille Meyer.

Drem Justaphot extinction meter

Photographic Technology

1930
Three film disk cassettes, for Wrist-A-Matic camera; 18 exposures, process by May 1982. Catalogue No 20.

Magna 112 Colour Print Film

Photographic Technology

1981
Kodak stereo camera instructions. Eastman Kodak, 1954-1959.

Kodak stereo camera instructions

Photographic Technology

1954
Box camera for 127 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, rotary shutter T/I. With two reflecting finders. Kodak Limited, 1914-1935

No 0 brownie camera model A

Photographic Technology

1914-1935
Box camera for 620 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, fixed aperture, rotary shutter B/I, push button release and two large reflecting finders. Kodak Limited. 1950-1959.

Brownie Six-20 Camera Model C

Photographic Technology

1950-1959
Hand-held flash reflector with moulded plastic pistol grip, metal dish, fitted with `Sashalite' brand flash bulb, screw fitting. British made, 1930s, Patent 370142.

Flash Reflector With 'Sashalite' Flash Bulb

Photographic Technology

1930s
Kodak Instamatic 25 Colour Outfit camera packaging. Kodak Limited. 1966-1971. Carton hinged with polystyrene insert, fabric strap, one film pack (Kodak Veirchrome Pan film 126 cartridge 12 exposures).

Kodak Instamatic 25 Colour Outfit Packaging

Photographic Technology

1966-1971
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

Photographic Technology

c. 1892
Twin lens reflex camera for 35mm film, 24 x 36mm. Fitted with two Agfa color Apotar lens F: 45mm, f/2.8-22, coated. Helical focusing mount with finder lens, reflex screen with split image finder in centre. Folding hood with magnifier and optical frame finder. Prontor shutter 1/2/5/8/15/30/125/250/500/B. Coaxial flash socket. X-Synch. Lever wind. Rotary exposure counter. Film type reminder wheel. With lens hood. Serial No AB 3850. Agfa c.1961.

Agfa Flexilette Twin Lens Reflex Camera

Photographic Technology

1956-1966
35mm camera 24x36mm. Voigtlander Color-Skopar lens F:50mm f/3.5; Synchro-Compur shutter 11/500 sec.; EV scale 3-18. Coupled coincidence rangefinder in DV finder. Film windon by plunger. Accessory shoe.

Voigtlander Vitessa SLR camera

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ITT Binocular 110 Camera 407, made in Japan for ITT (The International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation). 110 cartridge camera combined with non-prismatic binoculars (x4); F:80mm f/11 telephoto lens 80mm giving 4 times magnification.; single speed shutter. Described as a 'Unique Dual Purpose Camera for the Active Photographer'.

ITT Binocular 110 Camera 407

Photographic Technology

1980
The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders, on walnut cradle with carved legs. Key in bottom.

The Patent Revolving Album

Photographs

1875-1885
Enamelled-metal advertising sign bearing the words `Imperial Roll-Films Stand Supreme', 1924-1925.

Imperial Roll-Films Stand Supreme

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1924-1925
Hand turned cine camera for 9.5mm film in Pathex reloadable chargers. Hermagis anastigmat lens F: 20mm f/3.5-14 No.86335. 2 turns per second hand drive. Rotary meter counter. Folding frame finder (front frame missing). Parallax correction for 1 meter. No.068655. Continsouza. GB Patent 208105.

Pathe Baby Cine Camera

Cinematography
82x95mm Red Morocco leather case embossed both sides with flower and fern design. Gold leaf pattern around outside edges (now extremely worn). Two latches. Lined with plain red plush with a flower and fern motif. Gold leaf (worn) around edges. Rectangular gilt mat with fluted edges and pattern. Ornate pinchbeck frame. Lacquer and paper back. 60x70mm three quarter portrait of young woman wearing dress tinted green. Seated with arm resting on balustrade. Three quarter face. Face and hands tinted.

Collodion Positive in Red Morocco Leather Case

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Kodak Ltd. Box camera for 620 rollfilm 3 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Meniscus lens, fixed aperture. Sliding plates with yellow filter and close-up lens. Two brilliant reflecting finders. Pin and screw flash contacts. Mottled fawn and brown finish, with gilt trim.

Brownie Flash IV camera

Photographic Technology

1950-1959
Actinometer watch-type meter, full size, in engine-turned silver case. Hallmarked AW 'X' for 1897. Round meter with white face and insturction booklet.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897
Watkins bee meter. White metal with tin or chrome plating.

Watkins bee meter

Photographic Technology

c.1913
Red paper packet of 'Paper Nitric' for Agfa 'Flashlight-Lamp', manufactured in Berlin about 1922.

Packet of 'Paper Nitric'

Photographic Technology

1917-1927
Casio QV11 LCD digital camera with accessories. Serial No 4006331A.

Casio QV11 LCD digital camera with accessories

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Box form panoramic camera for 35mm film, 24 x 105mm. Industar-50 rotating lens F:5cm f/5. Exposure by focal plate slot on lens tube. 100/200/400 settings. Spirit level, wire frame finder and exposure counter. No. 620851.

FT-2 panoramic camera

Photographic Technology

1959-1969
Eastman Kodak Co. Collapsing camera for 616 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 2 1/4". folding bellows camera. Twindar lens, 'Simple 5-10 and 10 beyond'. Art deco design. Original carton.

Kodak Jiffy Six-16 Camera

Photographic Technology

1933-1937
Box camera for 103 rollfilm 3 1/2 x 12 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, of fixed aperture, in rotating mount. Exposure by focal plane slot on lens mount, two speeds (faulty), brilliant reflecting finder shows vertical field, engraved lines sow horizontal field. Two film spools retaining pins missing. No 12238. Eastman Kodak, 1907-1914.

No 4 panoram kodak model D

Photographic Technology

1907-1914
Packet of Hypo for Enitone and Collodion Self Toning papers, in printed paper wrapper.

Hypo For Enitone and Collodion Self Toning Papers

Photographic Technology

1924
Ensign Ful-Vue box camera for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Cast metal body with powder coating and plastric strap. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture and focus. T/I shutter. Large brilliant reflecting finder. 21st birthday present to June Foulds in 1952, £2/13/10d.

Ensign Ful-Vue camea

Photographic Technology

1951-1952
Carbine roll film camera folding roll film /plate camera. 5 x 4" pictures. Ross homocentric lens F:5", f6.3-22 No 85678 Lukos III shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/B. Wire cable release, sliding rising and cross front, sliding focussing brilliant reflecting finder.

Carbine roll film camera

Photographic Technology

1917-1921
Eyelevel solid body camera for 828 rollfilm 28 x 40mm. Fitted with a Kodak Anaston lens, coated f/5.6. Shutter 25/50. Single control calibrated 1-11. front cell focusing. Direct vision optical finder. Disc calculator on back - calibrated for light settings, weather and film types. Kodachrome, Kodacolor, black and white. Film type indicator. Coaxial flash socket. Kodak Limited. Exposure panel on back. Serial No 130270.

Kodak Bantam Colorsnap camera

Photographic Technology

1955
Serial cable for Kodak DC210 Zoom digital camera.

Serial cable for Kodak DC210 digital camera

Photographic Technology

1997
Hanimex PF628 Tele-Hanomatic camera. Pocket camera for 110 cartridge film; fixed exposure; normal tele lens setting; flipflash socket.

Hanimex PF628 Tele-Hanomatic camera

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Single lens refelx camera for 110 cartridge film. Interchangeable lenses; Pentax-110 F:24mm f/2.8 lens Serial No 1349394. Automatic exposure through the lens. Camera Serial No 1373747. In original carton with instructions, zip case etc.

Asahi Pentax Auto 110 camera

Photographic Technology

1981
Made by Company craftsmen at Kilburn camera repair works. 1/8th scale model of Brownie camera made for presentation to the Queen Mary's Doll's House project. Fully working. With 2 negatives taken with camera - one of men who made it; 2 contact prints and two enlargements. Camera not presented as a second, folding model was thought more appropriate. Lens: 1/2" piano convex from microscope objective; finder lenses watch crown jewels. Cost approxiamtely £30; six weeks work.

Negative Taken With Queen Mary's Doll's House Camera

Photographic Technology

1924