Collapsing plate camera

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Collapsing plate camera (ground glass missing). Flat aluminium case opens on hinge on front panel to form triangular form camera for 3 1/4 x4 1/4" plates. T/I shutter. Meniscus lens. Rotating reflecting finder hinges away inside camera body secured by rotating lens cap and leg. Similar to Griffin's Cyco or Kindermann 'Lope'. No. 629. M 3990. Overall (deployed): 166 mm x 106 mm x 188 mm.

Rondeau twin-lens studio camera

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Rondeau twin-lens studio camera. Double bellows twin-lens camera for half plates; repeating back. Taking lens; Ross Xpress F:10", f/4.5, No 143613. Viewing lens Ross Xpress F:10" f/4.5 No 143614. Luc type studio shutter T/I, XM flash synchronised; pneumatically released. Lazy tongs struts; rack focusing on rear; support for focusing cloth.

Le Vricour Plate Camera

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Collapsing camera for 6 x 4.2cm plates. Fitted with a single lens, Objectif Periscopique. Fixed aperture and focus, astra no.2 shutter, I/B. Optical frame finder. No rear sight. E.V.C., Paris and Lyon.

Shew 'Eclipse' 1/4-plate camera, with 3 slides, 1890

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1890

Shew 'Eclipse' 1/4-plate camera, with 3 slides, 1890.

Folding plate camera

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1898

Folding plate camera.1898

Ihagee plate camera

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1926

Ihagee plate camera made by Ihagee, Dresden. Metal folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Ihagee Anastigmat Priplex F:135mm, f6.3-36 No338927. Zenith everset shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Lever focussing inf.-1 meter. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. reflecting brilliant rotating finder with spirit level. Large wire frame finder. No. 236147. (M4489)

minimum palmos camera

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Minimum Palmos camera. Collapsing klapp camera for 4 x 5 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens F:150mm f/4.5-32 No.97258. Fabric focal plane shutter adjustable slit width and tension -1/4- 91/2, 0-9. Folding optical frame finder, ground glass focusing screen. Helical focusing. Lens panel revolves with swing rising movement in any direction. No.6084. In fitted wooden case with three filmpack adaptors, four blockform double darkslides and Zeiss film adaptor. Carl Zeiss. Overall (deployed): 180 mm x 195 mm x 170 mm.

Ottewill Plate Camera

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1855-1865

Ottewill plate camera. Sliding body camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Petzval type lens by J H Dallmeyer F; 6 inches c. f/3.8 with one Waterhouse stop, No 3. Rack and pinion focusing on lens, pinion missing. Serial No 3488. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing on rear panel. With repeating type back with sliding ground glass screen.

Challenge Dayspool Camera No. 1.

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1904

Challenge Dayspool Camera No. 1. Lizars, 1904

Linos plate camera

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c. 1898

Linos plate camera, made by Romain Talbot, Berlin. Folding wooden plate camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. RR lens F:6", f8.4-64; one blade shutter settings marked 1-9 and Z cocked by key. Sliding rising front ; swing front, sliding focussing. (M4635)

Kodak studio camera No.1

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Studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. With a fixed front panel, sliding rear panel and 3 feet extension. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel. Screw swing back, both movements, reversible back in detachable frame. Rubber ball shutter release. Kodak Limited. Fitted with lens 1990-5036/1778. Overall: 514 mm x 452 mm x 715 mm.

Ernemann miniature plate camera

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1920

Ernemann miniature plate camera, made by H. Ernemann, Dresden. For 1 3/4" x 2 1/2" plates. Self erecting folding form. No. 213130. Ernemann Detective Aplanat F:80mm, f.6.8 - 18. Shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/Z/O (not working). Lever focussing; two reflecting brilliant finders on base plate. Focussing screen. With filmpack adaptor.

Sanderson Hand Camera with quarterplate back

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1910

Folding camera, bellows form with double extension rack and pinion focussing. Rising and swing front. Ball bearing level; brilliant reflex finder with rotating mask. With 6 metal plate holders, in Newman Guardia leather camera case.

tenax plate camera

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1923

Tentax Plate Camera. Folding camera for 6 1/2 x 9cm plates. Fitted with a Goerz Dogmar lens, number 623333 F:11cm f/4.5-36. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Screw rising front, sliding cross front, rack and pinion focusing with double extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level, ground glass focusing screen, no 273472 . With cable release. C.P. Goerz, c.1923

Sanderson Hand Camera, Junior Model

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Sanderson hand camera, junior model

Goerz Teneax folding camera

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c.1912

Goerz TEnax folding camera for plates or sheet film 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". With double extension bellows, rising front and side movement. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with A Goerz Dogmar F.4.5 135mm lens built into a dial set Compur shutter with speeds 1sec 1/200 sec bulb and time. With brilliant optical reflex finder. With 23plate holders. Distance scale marked in feet. c.1912

Photo-Jumelle camera

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Photo-Jumelle camera, made by J C, Paris. Field glass shaped magazine plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2". RR lens F:5" c.f.10 iris diaphragm. Inst. Shutter, cocked by lever. Second lens acts as view finder seen through red window in back. 16 metal plateholders carried in position by sliding rod actuated mechanism. Plate numbers visible during change through red window (2 missing). In case. (M 3986)

Etui plate camera

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1925-1935

Folding plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plate. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens F:10.5cm f/4.5-32. No. 683561. With a rimset Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T and delayed action. Screw rising front. Rack and pinion focusing. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Folding frame finder and pin backsight. Ground glass focusing screen. No. 43100. With Rollex 120 rollfilm back. Made by Kamera Werke sold by Sands, Hunter and Co. c.1930

Ihagee plate camera

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1910-1930

Folding plate camera for 6x4cm plates; Meter-Goerlitz Ihagee anastigmat Trioplan lens F: 7.5cm f/6.8; no. 236240; pronto shutter 1/25-1/100; lever focusing; folding optical frame finder; with 3 single metal darkslides in case; no. 7721.

Ernemann heag 1 plate camera

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Ernemann Heag 1 folding rollfilm camera for 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a certo anastigmat trioplan lens F: 14cm f/8-45 No.513684. Everset shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Sliding rising and cross front. Folding brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen with folding hood. No.725847.

Sanderson Folding Plate camera

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c. 1910

Folding hand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. R. & J. Beck, series IV Isostigmar lens No. 19059 F:6 inch f/6.3 - 32. Koilos shutter with 3 blades, cocking lever 1/2/4/10/50/100/200/B/T. Cable release socket with cable. Sliding rising front (two movements) swing front (two movements) falling baseboard., hinged top flap on body for rising front movement. Rack and pinion focusing. Double extension bellows with brilliant reflecting finder, Adams & Co. with rotating mask on baseboard, spirit level with removable back.

Dallmeyer Speed Camera

Photographic Technology

1925

Dallmeyer Speed camera of British manufacture with British Patent 8721-2 and American Patent 1088492 Rg. No. 604414. Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Dallmeyer Pentac lens F: 4 1/4 inches f/2.9-16 no. 107334. Focal plane shutter 8/16/32/64/125/250/500/1000/B/T. Lever focusing, sliding rising front. Wire frame finder No DS 183.

Orion folding bellows hand camera

Photographic Technology

1920

Orion folding bellows hand camera for plates or sheet film size 9 x 12cm. DRop-front pull-out type. Manual focusing. Fitted with a Friedrich Munchen Corygon Anastigmat F.6.3 135mm f.1 lens mounted in a Vario everset shutter speeds 1/25 to 1/100sec. Brilliant waist-level viewfinder attahed to front standard. Made of wood and metal covered in black leather. c.1920

Plaubel Makina Vest Pocket Kodak Camera

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c.1925

Plaubel Makina vest pocket Kodak camera. Focusing by knurled know coupled to scissor movement. With specially designed Compur shutter. Cocking lever immediately below lens with rotating speed dial on right and release level on left. Original lens, Plaubel Anticomar F.2.8 75 f.1 missing. unsuitable lens fitted at later date. With Albada optical direct vision viewfinder mounted on top. Manufactured by Plaubel about 1925.

Delta folding bellows camera

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c.1914

Delta folding bellows camera for negatives 9 x 12cm. Drop-front pull-out type with double extension bellows. Rising front and side movement. Fitted with Carl Zeiss Triotar F.6.3 135mm lens mounted in a dial COmpur shutter, speeds 1sec to 1/250 B. & T. With waist-level viewfinder. Wood and metal construction with black leather covering. Base of polished aluminium with nickel plated fittings. ICA c.1914

Bertram Press Camera

Photographic Technology

1955

Bertram Press Camera for plates, cut and rollfilm negative size 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". Drop front pull-out type. Swing back adjustment. Lens has bayonet mount and interchangable. Shutter behind is Synchro Compur with speeds 1 1/400sec B. & T and delayed action device. Back is ground glass focusing screen. With 3 metal double darkslides. All metal construction covered in black leather. Bertram 1955.

Premoette No 1a camera

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1909-1912

Premoette junior camera fitted with a meniscus lens, 8 -128. Bausch and Lomb shutter T/B/I. sliding focusing, rotating reflecting finder on baseboard. Folding camera for film pack, 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Eastman Kodak. 1909-1912.

3A Pocket Premo C camera

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1904-1916

Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb pantograph lens F; 6 3/4 inches f/8-44. Ball bearing shutter 25/50/100/B/T. With pneumatic release valve and exposure counter, rack and pinion focusing with extra extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder, ground glass focusing screen No 7902. Eastman Kodak.

speed graphic camera

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Folding camera for 4 x 5 inch plates. Fitted with a Wollensak Steron anastigmat lens series A, F: 6 inches, f4.5-45, No 12788. Focal plane shutter, fabric blind, 6 tensions, 4 widths, 24 shutter speeds = T. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Spring out back, ground glass screen. Sliding rising front. Folmer and Schwing division of Eastman Kodak.

Century Graphic Camera

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1950-1959

Century Graphic folding hand camera for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch plates or cut film. Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:105mm f/3.5-32, Serial No 7454055, coated. Synchro-Compur shutter 1/2/4/8/15/30/60/125/250/500/B, MXV synchronisation, coaxial socket. Rack and pinion focsuing, sliding rising front, Coupled coincidence rangefinder, with direct or right-angle viewing; the latter for coupling to Kalart flash-gun. Parallax compensated direct vision optical finder; frame finder. Ground glass focusing screen in spring back. 'Mahoganite' body. Mottled grey and black leatherette. Serial No J50576. With two blockform double darkslides and Graflex 120 rollfilm holder.

Pony Premo No 5 camera

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1898-1900

Folding camera for 5x4 inch plates. Victor rapid rectilinear lens, US4 - 128. Bausch and Lomb shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing, extra extension. Sliding rising and cross front. Reflecting rotating finder on baseboard. Circular ball level. Vertical swing back. Reversible back, with sprung ground glass screen. No 127548. In fitted case with two double blockform dark slides, and Premo film pack adaptor.

Royal Mail camera

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Box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. 15 simple lenses in 3 vertical rows of 5. Slide shutter exposes all lenses simultaneously. Lenses set for copying. Ground glass screen. W. Butcher.

little nipper developing and printing outfit

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c. 1900

Little nipper box plate camera for 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a simple lens, T/I shutter. Wire frame finder, no back sight. Plateholder missing. Safelight with ruby glass for nightlight. Three wooden printing frames. Unopened packet of little nipper dryplates. Small slip in type photo album "happy memories with the little nipper". Dish, plateholder and chemicals missing. Butchers.

Instantograph folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1896

Instantograph camera made by J Lancaster & Son. Folding camera, mahogany and brass for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Sliding rising and cross front. Swing back. Double extension magenta bellows. Ground glass screen swings out to admit plate holder.

Coronet camera outfit

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c. 1934

Cardboard box camera for single plate 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, loaded in the dark. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture and focus. With a spring loaded shutter, brief time only, and a single reflecting viewfinder. Coronet Camera Co.

Anca No 14 Kodak camera

Photographic Technology

1933

Folding metal plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Schneider Radionar anastigmat lens, F: 10.5cm f/6.3-32. Pronto shutter 25/50/100/T/B. Delayed action, rotating brilliant reflecting finder, wire frame finder, sliding rising front, lever focusing to 4 feet. Ground glass focusing screen with hood. Kodak A.G. 1933

Nagel recomar 33 camera

Photographic Technology

1933

Folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Zeiss Tessar lens, F:13.5 cm. f/4.5-32. No 2417842. Compur shutter, 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T, with delayed action. Added flash socket, coaxial. Rack and pinion rising and cross front. Rack and pinion focusing with double extension, Brilliant reflecting rotating finder, wire frame finder No 11862Z, "stolen from Kodak Limited" engraved on the side. Kodak AG.

Tylar's Pocket Titbit Camera

Photographic Technology

1897

Tylars pocket titbit camera, made by W. Tylar, Aston, Birmingham. Collapsing camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/4 plates. Single lens f/11-22. External rotating shutter, 3 tensions. Two built-in reflecting finders.

Sanderson Folding Half Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1900

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. No lens or lens panel. Sliding and rising front, with two adjustments. Sanderson's patent Universal Swing Front and back. Rack and pinion focusing, with double extension. Pendulum level. Ground glass screen and tripod head are missing.

The Excelsior Magazine Plate Camera

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The Excelsior magazine plate camera. No makers name. Patent number 765. Wooden box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. RR lens with fixed focus and aperture. Adjustable sector shutter 1-2-3 by screw. T/I release buttons. Reflecting finders - 2- with metal hoods. Plates changed by turning a crank on the top of the camera. Spring-loaded claws transport the plates and there is an automatic counter on the back , numbered from 1-12. It was possibly made in Germany.

box type magazine camera

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c.1905

Box type magazine plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. With simple lens, external plate with three apertures and a T/I shutter. With two brilliant reflecting finders falling plate changing mechanism with six plate holders.

Home-made hand and stand camera

Photographic Technology

1910

Folding camera for quarterplates 4.75x3.25 inches; Dallmeyer Stigmatic lens no 2 Series II F:5.3 inches 13.5cm; compound shutter 1/250-1 sec; rack and pinion focusing, double extension; rising front; reversible back; Daza reflecting finder on baseboard.

Falling plate magazine camera

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No maker's name. Box plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. Rapid rectilinear lens; rotating plate with 4 apertures; f/8, 11, 16, 22. 'Patent' shutter 5/25/50/100/T. Rack and pinion focusing. Two brilliant reflecting finders. Yellow filter, stowed inside camera front. Sliding cover for lens and viewfinders. 12 metal plate holders with hooked bottoms, released by slide on camera top.

Ensign folding bellows camera

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1915-1925

Ensign folding bellows camera for plates or sheet film size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Drop-front pull-out type with rack adn pinion focusing and double bellows extension. With Rectimat Symmetrical lens F.8.5" f.1 lens mounted in an ever-set shutter speeds 1/25 ro 1/100sec B. & T. With back ground glass. All metal construction with black leather cover. Houghton c.1920

One-Shot Tri-Colour Camera

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One-shot tri-colour camera made by W Watson & Sons Ltd. Aaron Hamburger design. Serial No. 14626. Back and side plates. For 1/1 plates; transparent reflector (missing) splits beam in two paths - straight through onto bi-pack of two plates at back, in special holder with rubber covered pressure plate; reflected beam onto single plate at side; fitted with Ross Rapid Symmetrical lens No 22403 (not original). Rack focusing, with linkage swinging back holder to allow for toeing in at different distances.

Xit camera

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A-form collapsing camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a C.P. Goerz Syntor Doppel anastigmat Series D lens F: 125mm f/6.8-45 No. 206878. Compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Pneumatic release valve. Sliding rising front. Helical screw focusing by lever. Shew and Co.

15 x 12 Inch Plate Camera

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15 x 12" plate camera made by W. Watson & Sons Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London. New Patent model, sold by W. Morley, 70 Upper Street, London. With TTH lens No. 16760, 12 x 10 RR Eq. focus. 16"; f8 - 64 iris diaphragm. Rising front (sliding) swing front. Dou

Nydia camera

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Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss anastigmat lens F: 240mm f/6.3-45 No.38222. N&G shutter 2/4/8/16/32/64/100/T lever focusing. Detachable reflecting finder. Integral bag changing box. Automatic exposure counter 7 (of 12) metal holders. Holders moved into back by lever. Swing back. Newman and Guardia.

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera

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c.1906

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm size 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". Rack and pinion focusing. More than double extensions. With waist-level viewfinder and ground glass back. has an interchangeable lens panel fitted with a Bausch detective aplanat 5" f.1 lens made by Roya form, Emil Bausch Rathenniw mounted in a Bausch & Lomb Unicum shutter, speeds 1sec - 1/100 B. & T. With 5 wooden double dark slides. c.1906

Stamp camera (?Holborn)

Photographic Technology

Box camera for 9x12cm plates; 9 small lenses in 3x3 rows. Front flap folds down, with holder for photograph, for copying; internally divided into 9 compartments.