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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

1862

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Reid III Rangefinder Camera

circa 1956

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Kodak Retina (Type 117)

1934-1935

Contax camera

1932-1936

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bicycle Carrying Case for No. 4 Cartridge Kodak Camera

1892-1902

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Contax S camera

1948

LogiTech FotoMan Plus digital camera

1992

Chemical cabinet.

Chemical Cabinet

Jackson's instantaneous shutter. Title on bone inset plaque.

Jackson's instantaneous shutter

1850-1900

Canon AE1 35mm single lens refelx camera body, partially dismantled. Cut-away section through body (no lens).

Canon AE1 Camera Body Partially Dismantled

Apple Mac Quick Take 100 digital camera. Serial Number TL4288P325Q. Built-in flash unit and LCD screen. 99000369 written in marker pen on side of camera body.

Apple Mac Quick Take 100 digital camera

1994

Clear glass flask, spherical with metal rim, by Ets Leune, 28 bis rue du Cardinal Lemoine, Paris, France, 1851-1900; stopper missing.

Clear glass flask with metal rim, 1851-1900

1851-1900

Olympus Trip 35 SLR camera with pouch. Olympus DZUIO lens 1;2.6, f-40mm. Lens made in Japan. Camera Serial No 5231297.

Olympus Trip 35 with pouch

Flask, clear glass, for pouring, European, second half 19th century.

Clear glass flask, 1851-1900

1851-1900

Ricoh Mirai autofocus 35mm S.L.R. camera, serial No.47108542. With power zoom lens 35-135mm 1:4.-5.6, macro; with lens cap. Manufactured by Ricoh Company, Japan, 1988. retailed by Johnson's Photopia.

Ricoh Mirai Autofocus 35mm SLR camera

1988

Nimslo 3-D 35mm camera. 35mm automatic 3 Dimension. Hot shoe.Automatic shutter, electronically programmed, 1/30 to 1/500 seconds. Serilal No.230910334. 30mm Quadra lens system; 30mm f/5.6 Air Spaced Triplets with coated high indexed optical glass elements, prefocussed to 6' (2 metres) to infiniity. Serial No 1202.

Nimslo 3-D 35mm camera

1982

Canon AE-1 program camera. Serial No V1054H(K). Canon lens fd; 50mm 1:1.74, Serial no 3373241, Shutter No 5000000E. Hot shoe fitting.

Canon AE-1 Program Camera

Nikonos V underwater camera. Orange rubber. Camera Serial No 2016269. Nikon Nikkor 35mm lens 1:2.5, Serial No 555687. With hot shoe.

Nikanos-V Underwater Camera

Folding wooden drying rack for 24 plates, 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches or larger.

plate drying rack

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

Flexible Printed Circuit Board from Canon AE1

Box camera for 116 rollfilm 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, sliding plate with three apertures. Rotary shutter, T/I. Two reflecting finders. Kodak Canada Inc. 1924-1933.

No 2A Brownie Camera

1924-1933

Medal, Birmingham Photographic Society, 1934. Awarded to Stanley A Smith. Round relief, cast base metal with silver paint. Seated man developing a photograph with a girl behind. In fabric-lined box.

Medal, Birmingham Photographic Society

1934

A cardboard three-dimensional display stand for Kodak Brownie camera depicting a person in the foreground photographing a couple in the background.

Kodak Brownie camera display stand

Plaque, New Photographer Award, 1928. Cast bronze relief on wooden mount. Cast with a seated man putting a laurel crown on a seated angel. 'Awarded to S A Smith New Photographer 6168 - LNER April 1928'

New Photographer Award, 1928

1928

Medal, Bradford Camera Club 1930-1931. Awarded to Stanley A Smith. Cast white metal, releif of woman in Classical dress writting on a wall. In case. 'Stanley A Smith Bradford Camera Club Trophy 1930-31'.

Medal, Bradford Camera Club 1930-1931. Awarded to Stanley A Smith. Cast white metal

1930-1931

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

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

Photograph album with black lacquer covers. Front cover is ornamented with large figure of an eagle in mother of pearl, on branch made of none with mother of pearl flowers and two mother of pearl small beads. All pages and cover interiors are covered with hand painted silk showing Japanese scenery and flowers.

Japanese photograph album

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

1925-1932

Folding camera for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4. Kodar lens F:111mm f/7.9-45. No 0 Kodex shutter 3 blades 25/50/T/B. Screw focusing, 100-6 foot. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder, autographic back. No 49342. Kodak Canada. Serial No 49342.

No1 Pocket Kodak

1926-1931

Pearlware vase with pale blue and pink floral decoration on sides, gilding to rim and handles and surround for photograph, Königlich privilegierte Porzellanmanufaktur Tettau of Bavaria, about 1900. Transfer print on base reads 'Kgl Priv Tettau'. Body of vase has carbon print of author Rudyard Kipling in sepia, fired-in, with gold decorative border.

Vase with fired-in portrait of Rudyard Kipling

1880-1914

3D Roye-Vala-Scope disposable spectacles. Acorn 2563. Natural Vision Studios Ltd, Grove Place, London, W3. 'Specialising in all forms of 3D Photography'.

Roye-Vala-Scope Disposable 3-D glasses

1950-1959

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

Wooden tray 237x327mm; originally waterproofed. Traces of crystals in angles. Used for fixing?

Wooden processing tray used by W H F Talbot

Lithograph depicting a man holding a camera with text printed underneath which reads '7. internationale Ausstellung von Kunst-Photographien 1899, Hamburg, Kunsthalle'. The lithograph is signed Einbeck.

Lithograph depicting a man holding a camera

Leica I camera, made by Leitz, 1929.

Leica I Camera

1929

Rigid body camera for Kodak PR-10 Instant Print packs; auto exposure; lighten-darken control; battery test button; brightline finder manual picture ejection; flip-flash socket.

Kodak EK2 Instant camera

1977

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

Kowa Ramera Model KTC-62 camera-radio. 16mm sub miniature camera built into transmitter radio. Red and cream plastic. Prominar lens F:23mm f/3.5, Serial No K12342; 3-speed shutter; direct vision finder. Coaxial flash socket. Medium wave radio, frequency range 565 Khz; volume control; earphone socket. serial No 38700.

Kowa Ramera model KTC-62 camera-radio

1959

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

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

Hanimex PF628 Tele-Hanomatic camera

Sterling silver medal. Obverse depicting allegorical Classical female figure holding bellows camera, engraved 'Kodak Staff International Society'. Reverse engraved 'Sydney 1929 S. Schofield Harrow'; within wreath. In leatherette presentation case lined with blue silk and velvet. Inside lid printed 'Toye & Co Ltd, London, Masonic Jewellers, Liverpool & Manchester, 57 Theobald's Rd & WC'.

Kodak Fourth Internationl Salon Silver Medal

1929

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

Awarded to N L Wilson, Harrow, in Eighth Exhibtion. Yellow metal medal . Obverse shows classssically-dressed woman with bellows, camera, shield, engraved ' Kodak Staff Photographic Society'. Reverse engraved in laurel wreath 'Eighth Exhibition 1950, M L Wilson, Harrow'. In lined case. Machine-tooled blue leatherette box, silk lined, blue velvet. Silk inside lid of box printed 'Watches & Clocks, Jewellery, The Glossoid Co Ltd, 45-50 Hillborn Viaduct, London, EC1, Cutlery, silver, electro-plate, cups & sports prizes a speciality'.

Kodak Staff Photographic Society bronze medal in case

1930

Twin-lens reflex camera for 35mm film 24x36mm; Wollensak Anastigmatic lens F:44mm f/3.2 for both taking and viewing; Bolsey Synchro-matic shutter 1/10-1/200; coupled split-image rangefinder; full-size reflex finder coupled to taking lens; separate direct vision optical finder; pin and screw flash contacts; automatic diaphragm setting for flash, coupled to focusing; ERC; no. 635053.

Bolsey Model C-22 Set-O-Matic camera

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