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Kodak No 3 Folding Quarter Plate Camera

1905

Gandolfi Extending Bellows Camera

1930

Ensign Rollfilm/Plate camera

circa 1920

R B Graflex camera, Series B

1924-33

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Polyfoto camera

1933

Ottewill folding box camera

1853

Compass miniature camera

1937

Century Model 46 Plate Camera

1900-1907

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

circa 1860

Fowke's Bellows camera

1856

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889

Eclipse Plate Camera

Plate camera with bellows

circa 1888

Improved 'Academy' Quarter Plate Camera

circa 1875

Folding 'Ladies Handbag' Camera

1892

Nelrod Liteflash camera

1950

Beck Field camera

circa 1889

Goerz Anschutz Press Camera

1895-1905

Loman's Patent Reflex Camera

1889

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

circa 1925

Universal Special Pattern B camera

circa 1909

Pantascopic Camera No 32

1862

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

1902-1917

Ernemann Ermanox F.2 Rigid Miniature Camera

1924

Camera, British Rail, Underwood dryplate camera in leather case.

Underwood dryplate camera in leather case

Camera, dryplate, ex York Carriageworks, in case with engraved label North Eastern Railway carriage and wagon dept. drawing office York.

Plate camera, North Eastern Railway

Studio camera by Charles G Collins, St John's Wood, 1870-1889. Sliding body camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. The lens panel slides into back. RAck and pinion focusing over approx 20cm, exposed rack on basebaord. Vertical swing repeating back. Ground glass focusing screen hinges downwards. Fitted with a single wooden darkslide. With DAllmeyer 3D lens cat no.0657. Charles G. Collins.

wet-plate studio camera

1870-1889

Butler's patent, tri-colour camera with Trinar Astigmat lens, No 54, by J Lancaster & Son, Birmingham, 1905. Butler's patent No 54.

Butler's Patent Tri-Colour Camera

1905

Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates, fitted with R and J Beck rectilinear 7 inch lens Serial No 2448. With lens cap, set of Waterhouse stops and one double dark slide. Manufactured by Scovill Manufacturing Co., USA, 1887. Overall (closed): 245 mm x 152 mm x 277 mm.

Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates

Lancaster 1901 B B Instantograph camera, folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster Patent landscape achromatic lens, iris diaphragm marked 1-8 f/10-30. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing with double extension. Swing back, both movements. Lancaster patent swing out ground glass focusing screen. Manufactured by J Lancaster and Son, Birmingham. 1901. This was a special 'tropical' version of the Instantograph - the letters BB stand for Brass Bound.

Lancaster B B Instantograph camera

1901

Collapsing press plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates, c 1900. With no lens and a faulty focal plane shutter. Rising, sliding and cross front, focusing by screw operating tongs mechanisms on front and rear panel simultaneously. Optical frame finder and a continental tripod bush. M4124. Overall (deployed): 170 mm x 190 mm x 305 mm.

Press plate camera

1895-1905

Mahogany and brass stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 plates. Fitted with an Underwood rapid rectilinear lens F: 9 inches f/8-64. Thornton Pickard time and inst. Roller blind shutter, 15/25/40/60/80/T. Sliding, rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, double extension, swing back, square bellows, with tripod head. Underwood.

Underwood Instanto Tailboard Field Camera

circa 1896

Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2a F;6.5 inches, f/6.3-45, No106595. With a Thornton pickard Time and inst. Roller blind shutter behind the lens. 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Vertical swing back. Lens panel is located by pin and keyhole slot. Reversible back with ground glass focusing screen in hinged frame. Built in tripod turntable.

Quarter-Plate Stand Camera

1910

Folding camera for 4.5x6cm plates; ICA-Meyer Novar Anastigmatic lens F:7.5cm f/6.8 no. 436157; Wheelset Compur-type shutter, everset, 1/2-1-1/100 sec; brilliant reflecting finder; lever focussing; in original box with 4 single metal darkslides and filmpack adaptor; no. G 20262.

ICA Vitrix camera

Box plate camera with a simple lens and sliding plate with three apertures rotary shutter. With two reflecting viewfinders, three double plate holders for 9 x 12 cm plates. With two holders stored behind the focal plane.

Box Plate Camera

No. 6 Folding Kodak camera, improved model, 1893-5. Folding box/bellows camera for rollfilm or plates 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch. Fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Universal lens F:12 inches. US 4-256 interchangeable elements for W/A lens F:9 inches US 16 - 128. Bausch & Lomb iris diaphragm shutter 3/2/1/2/5/25/50/100/T. With pneumatic release valve. Lens and shutter have bayonet fitting. Sliding and rising cross front, drop-front and swing back. Lever focusing - two positions for converted lens. Rotating reflecting finder. Compartment under lid contains a spare lens elements, tripod screw and roll holder screw. Walker roll holder No.532. Overall (deployed): 290 mm x 300 mm x 470 mm.

No.6 folding Kodak, improved model

1893-1895

Kodak repeating back factory pass camera. Made by Equipment Services Division for factory pass photography. Only one made, For 1/2 plate; Ilex Paragon Anastigmat lens, series A F:6 1/2" f/4.5 No 38638. Compur rimset shutter 1-1/200 sec. Repeating back mechanism produces 12 exposures 4x3 on 1/2 plate; handle operated. Optical finder with ground glass screen. Used at Harrow until 1966. Overall: 545 mm x 425 mm x 260 mm.

Kodak repeating back factory pass camera

Folding strut plate camera with no makers name. Wooden collapsible camera for 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 plates. RR lens F:6", f8-44; Helical mount focussing, inf.-2 yards. Focal plane shutter with variable tension, marked 1-6. Rising and cross front by single slide on rotating lens panel. Optical frame finder. (M 4619). Overall (deployed): 145 mm x 150 mm x 85 mm. Typical camera used by press photographers of the period.

Folding plate camera

1920

No 5 Folding Kodet camera, 1895-1897, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 5 x 7 plates or roll film. Fitted with an achromatic lens, rotating disc with four apertures, built in Kodet shutter, adjustable slow to fast I/T. Sliding focus, sliding rising and cross front, rotating reflecting finder on the baseboard with Eastman roll holder for 7 inch rollfilm, with exposure counter No 534. With ground glass screen, camera no 592. Overall (deployed): 190 mm x 230 mm x 344 mm.

Kodak No 5 Folding Kodet camera

1895-1897

S L Thistle monogram magazine box plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Doublet lens f/12-48 rotating plate with lenses infinity 18/10/4/ T/I shutter, adjustable S-R. Two hooded reflecting finders lever operated rocking frame, falling plate mechanism, exposure counter to 12.

Magazine Box Plate Camera

Stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. no lens. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing. Vertical swing back. Ground glass focusing screen in reversible back. Tripod turntable built in. Sold by Spiers and Pond's Stores, Queen Victoria Street.

Whole Plate Stand Camera

Pony Premo C camera, made by the Rochester Optical and Camera Co. NY. Wooden folding plate camera for 5 x 7 plates. Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens f8-358; ROCCo shutter - 2 blade 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. 2 cylinder pneumatic shutter. Sliding rising front, sliding focussing. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder. No. 171101. (M4680)

Pony Premo C camera

1902

Folding camera for 118 rollfilm or single plates 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches/ Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens US 4-64. 3F.B.K. shutter T/B/I. Sliding focusing, preset stop. Screw rising, sliding cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with level. Back with removable panel to permit use of plateholder. No.10483. Eastman Kodak.

No.3 flushback Kodak camera model B

Stamp camera. Box camera with 9 small lens in 3x3 rows; detachable internal divided with 'perforation' edged mask for 9 pictures approx 24x30mm on .25 plate.

Stamp camera

Folding plate camera, no makers name. Mahogany stand camera for 3 1/4 4 x 1/4" plates. Single lens, fixed aperture. Fixed front panel, rear panel sliding for focusing. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding strip. (M3677)

Folding plate camera

1885

Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 4" x 5" plates. Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens, U.S. 4 - 128, Unicum shutter, 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T with pneumatic release valve, sliding rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing with extra extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder on base board, spirit level, swing back both directions, reversable bacl, no 792. Overall (deployed): 165 mm x 152 mm x 220 mm.

Eastman Plate Camera No 4 Series C

1905-1915

French magazine plate camera, with no makers name. Box-form plate camera, carrying 12 plate holders, each dropped to the bottom of camera by turning key on the side of the camera. Automatic counter, bearing on back of the last plateholder. Sliding lens, f.16-45; T/I shutter, calibrated 1-6. Two brilliant reflecting finders; built in circular spirit levels.

Magazine plate camera

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