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Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Compass miniature camera

Photographic Technology

1937

Polyfoto camera

Photographic Technology

1933

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

Photographic Technology

c. 1925

Century Model 46 plate camera

Photographic Technology

1900-1907

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Ensign Rollfilm/Plate camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1920

Universal Special Pattern B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1909

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Calotype camera with lens and metal focussing cover, (mahogany), c 1839-1842. Camera owned and used by William Henry Fox Talbot; made by Andrew Ross. During 1838 and 1840 Talbot purchased a number of cameras to make photogenic drawings from the London instrument maker, Andrew Ross. Equipped with simple lens there is also an inspection hole in the lens panel above the lens that was use to check that the image was centrally located on the sensitive paper and correctly focused.

Calotype camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot, c 1841

Photographic Technology

1839-1842

Twelve lens repeating, back wet plate camera, c1870.

Twelve lens repeating, back wet plate camera, c 1870

Photographic Technology

1865-1875

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

Photographic Technology

1884-1894

Improved 'Academy' Quarter Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1875

Shew's Xit Eclipse quarter plate camera, made by J F Shew & Co. London. Collapsing A form, wooden camera for RR lens, rotating aperture plate f/8,11,16,32. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw and lever focusing inf.- 1 1/2 yards. Shew removable , reflecting finder. No focusing screen. (M477)

Eclipse plate camera

Photographic Technology

1896

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

Photographic Technology

1870-1889

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1860

Protype box-type rollfilm camera for 80mm wide roll film 95 x 80mmm. 'Parcel' or 'Tombosa' camera. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, sliding plate with three apertures sliding focusing uncalibrated, rotating shutter, adjustable tension, single reflecting finder, film wound without backing paper, friction roller, indicates correct windon., pressure plate pinched by lever to be slackened when winding off. Camera covered with cardboard case with apertures for controls, lens, etc. Surrounded by leather straps and carrying handle, to resemble brown paper parcel. Henry N B Good of Devises. 1889. never produced commercially.

Tombosa Detective Camera

Photographic Technology

1889

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

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

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

Underwood dryplate camera in leather case

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Camera with hole and cork for focussing, and rack for raising, c 1836-1840. Camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot. During 1838 and 1840 Talbot purchased a number of cameras to make photogenic drawings from the London instrument maker, Andrew Ross. This camera may derive from this source. Equipped with simple lens there is also an inspection hole in the lens panel above the lens that was use to check that the image was centrally located on the sensitive paper and correctly focused.

Early camera used by William Henry Fox Talbot, c 1838

Photographic Technology

1836-1840

Kodak No 3 Folding Quarter Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1905

Box magazine plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Rouch instantaneous doublet lens No 7023 with 4 Waterhouse stops, Thornton Pickard Roller Blind shutter built in behind lens 15/25/40/60/80, released by pneumatic tube (perished). Two reflecting finders with covers. Sliding lens cover, bag type plate changer built in with 12 metal plate holders. Sliding body focusing. W.W. rouch. 1888.

Rouch's Eureka Detective Camera

Photographic Technology

1888

Wooden folding plate camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. Rapid rectilinear lens f/8-128. Bausch & Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/T/B. Sliding and rising front, rack and pinion focusing to 5ft. Rotating reflecting finder on baseboard, ground glass screen. No 9425. G Gennert.

Golf Montauk camera

Photographic Technology

1898

Eclipse plate camera (ground glass missing), manufactured by J F Shew & Co, Newman Street London. Collapsing, wooden A form plate camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 plates. RR lens, rotating aperture disc. f/ 7.7, 11, 16, 22. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw/lever focusing inf. -10'. Two spirit levels.Ground glass missing. Number 4102 (M 1259). Overall (deployed): 160 mm x 206 mm x 210 mm. A wooden collapsing A-form hand camera for half-plates, fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens and a rotary shutter. This camera was one of the first plate cameras designed for hand use. When closed it resembles a flat box. The sides fold out and the lens panel is pulled out and fits into notches in the side panels. The camera is based on a design by G Lowdon, patented on 1st April, 1885 (No 4102).

Eclipse plate camera

Photographic Technology

Voigtlander Bergheil folding camera for plates or cutfilm 9 x12cm. Fitted with triple extension bellows. WIth brilliant viewfinder and framefinder on front standard. Fitted with a Voigtl Geliar F.4.5 15 cm lens in a dial set Compur shuttter speeds 1sec - 1/200sec in bayonet mount. c.1927.

Voigtlander Bergheil folding camera, c 1927

Photographic Technology

1922-1932

Single lens reflex camera, "Loman's Patent Reflex Camera" for quarter plates, manufactured by Loman and Co., Amsterdam, 1889. Overall (deployed): 205 mm x 190 mm x 185 mm.

Loman's Patent Reflex Camera

Photographic Technology

1889

folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Goerz Tenanastigmat lens F:125mm f/6.8-45 no 348039. Compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T . Sliding cross front, lever operated sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing, double extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder, spirit level, with cable release, ground glass focusing screen. No 58604. C.P. Goerz. c.1914

Tenax camera

Photographic Technology

1909-1919

Thornton Pickard Ruby camera. Quarterplate folding camera, brass and mahogany. Bellows plate. Rising and swing front. Double focussing pinions - front and back Pendulum level. Built-in tripod fittings. No.3193A. Fitted with Cooke lens 1259. No 3193.

Thornton Pickard Ruby camera

Photographic Technology

1899-1905

Plaubel Makina I folding bellows camera for negatives 2 1/4 x 3 1/2". Lazy tong design. Fitted with a Plaubel Aticor f/2.9 100 mm focal lenght lens. With direct vision optical viewfinder and wire frame finder attached to the lens panel. In pneumatic dial Compur type shutter. Cocking lever below lens. Manufactured by Plaubel in1925.

Plaubel Makina I folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1925

Speed Graphic Camera 5"x4". Kalart Synchronized Range Finder; Supermatic shutter by Eastman Kodak; Kodak Ektar lens 1:4.7, 127mm, No FT4583; flash arm attached, fitted with Phillips Photoflux Type PF48 flashbulb (1982-5028/2).

Speed Graphic Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1950

The Pullman camera. Bellows camera in leather box, detective style, for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Rapid rectilinear lens f/8-64. Benetfink supplied Thornton Pickard Time & Inst shutter 15/30/45/75/90/T behind lens, Reg No 211201. With leather lens cap. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing using removable key stored inside case. Reflecting viewfinder missing from baseboard. Vertical swing back, ground glass screen. Manufactured by J Levi & Co London. Retailed by Benet..., Cheapside, London.

The Pullman Detective Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1896

Baker and Rouse 12 x 10 inch plate camera. Folding field camera for 12 x 10 inch plates. Fitted with a London Stereoscopic Co Black Band Rapid Rectilinear lens for 15 x 12 inch plates. f/8-64 No.17315. On circular lens board. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Vertical swing back. Hinged ground glass focusing screen. With 10 x 8 inch adaptors. Baker and Rouse.

Baker and Rouse Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

Folding camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. No lens fitted. Sliding rising front on lens panel. Drop baseboard, swing front with Sanderson patent catch. Top of camera body raises to permit extra rise with wide angle lens. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Brilliant reflecting finder with rotating mask on baseboard. Reversible back with ground glass screen. Spirit level (dry) in baseboard. No. 19195. Houghtons Limited.

The Sanderson Hand Camera, Junior model

Photographic Technology

Bellows plate Dallmeyer Speed Camera. 1 1/2"x2 3/4" plate camera - folding body closed 3 1/4x4 1/4x1 3/4 ins. Focal plane shutter 1/8,1/16,1/32,1/64,1/125,1/250,1/500,1/1000 B.T. Focussing screen and scale inf.-2yds. Frame sports finder rising cum cross front. Black leather covering and bellows.

Dallmeyer Speed Camera

Photographic Technology

1923

Patent field camera by A J Melhuish of London. A 10 x 8 inch Kinnearpattern camera with brass rear standard and applied label 'Melhuish's patent. Patented November 10, 1859 and December 28 1859'.

Patent Field Camera by A J Melhuish of London

Photographic Technology

1860-1862

Folding bellows hand camera for plates or sheet film, negative size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Drop-front pull-out type with rack and pinion focusing, double extensions and rising front and side movement. Lens interchangeable but fitted with a R. J. Beck Ltd Isostigmar F.5.8 4, 75 inch f.1 lens in a Bausch & Lomb pneumatic shutter speeds 1sec to 1/100 sec B. & &T. Made of wood and metal with black leather cover. Base of polished mahogany with red leather bellows. c.1910

Folding bellows hand camera

Photographic Technology

1910

Folding camea for 3 1/2 inch wide rollfilm or single plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-64. Bausch and Lomb automat shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Pneumatic release. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Screw rising and cross front. RAck and pinion focusing. DOuble extension. Drop front. COmbination back. With envelope adaptor back and 12 card plateholders. No. 203713.

Rollfilm plate camera

Photographic Technology

Magazine plate camera, similar to Newman and Guardia models. No makers name. H.D. Taylors Series III lens Eq. F: 4.97". F.6.5-32. In compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/T/B. (Not original - case cutaway to take cable release). Two reflecting finders with caps and spirit levels. (Ground glasses missing). 12 metal plate holders in magazine with bag changer. Compartment inside holds screwdriver and tweezers. Rising and cross front movement of lens panel.

Magazine plate camera

Photographic Technology

The Clack folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" plates or cutffilm. Drop-front pull-out type/ With double extension adn rack and pinion focusing. With rising front and side movement. Lens is interchangable. Fitted with a Lunar Anastigmat Series A F.4.8 120mm f.1 lens made by Rietschel. Mounted in a compund shutter with speeds 1sec 1/250sec B. & Z. With two levers adn brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Made of wood and metal covered in black leather. c.1910

The Clack folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1910

Folding bellows hand or stand camera for plates or sheet size 4 1/4" x 3 1/4". Double extension, tapered red leather bellows, reversing and tilting back. Lens panel of rising front and side movement. Two metal struts for rigidity. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear lens F.8 6" f.1 lens. Has no shutter. Made of mahogany with nickel plated fittings. c.1906

Folding bellows hand or stand camera

Photographic Technology

c.1906

Folding plate camera for plates or cutfilm 9 x 12cm. Drop-front pull-out type with rising front and side movement. Double extension bellows worked by rack and pinion. Fitted with a Polyplan F.7.2 135mm lens mounted in a Vario 3-speed shutter 1/25 -1/100B.T. Back ground glass and brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Made of wood and metal with leather cover. c.1914

folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1914

Cunz plate camera Model 8. Folding camera for 4 inch x 5 inch plates. F:13.5cm Steinheil Munchen Doppelanastigmat Unofocal. ACG shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/T/B. Rising and cross front. Double extension bellows. Reflecting brilliant finder with spirit level

Clunz Plate Camera No 8

Photographic Technology

Plaubel Makina plate camera. Plaubel Co, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Collapsing camera for 6x9cm plates. Plaubel Anticomar lens F:10cm f/2.9, No 70155. F Deckel shutter 1-1/200, B.T. Delayed action. Folding optical frame finder and folding wire frame finder. Screw focusing on struts. Coaxial flash socket, not original. Screw in T 1.5 lens with three single metal darkslides and FP adaptor in leather pouch. Overall (deployed): 120 mm x 140 mm x 135 mm.

Plaubel Makina plate camera

Photographic Technology

1934

Box magazine camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a simple lens, rotating plate with three apertures, f/10, 14, 26. t/I rotary shutter. Two reflecting finders. Slide operated falling plate mechanism. Five metal sheaths. Tylar

Tylar magazine plate camera

Photographic Technology

Eclipse collapsible bellows camera Patent No. 4102. for single dry plates, negative size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4. Lens panel supported by two wooden braces. Fitted with a Taylor T Hobson Rapid Rectilienear lens, approx F.8 4 1/2" lens with rotary between the shutter T and instantaneous. Of fixed speeds, cocked by rotating the shutter blade with release on lens barrel. Fitted in a helical mount. J F Shew c.1890

Eclipse collapsible bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1890

Voigtlander 'Vag' folding bellows camera for plates and cutfilm negative size 9 x 12cm. Drop-front pull-out camera. Single extension bellows. Fitted with a Voigtlander Voigtar F.6.3. 135mm lens mounted in an ever set Ibsor shutter, speeds 1-1/125sec B.&T. Viewing by ground glass back. With brilliant waist level viewfinder. Aluminium alloy body with black leather covering. c.1924

Voigtlander 'Vag' folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1925

Voigtlander Bergheil folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm, negative size 10 x15cm. Made of drwn steel wo carry large aperture lens. Drop-front pull-out type with double extension bellows. Rack and pinion focusing. Lens panel has rising and cross front movement operated by two thimb screws. Fitted with a Voigtlander Anastigmat 'Skopar' F.4.5 16.5cm mounted in a dial set Compur shutter speeds 1 1/200sec B. & T. With back ground-glass screen and waist-level brilliant viewfinder. c.1922

Voigtlander Bergheil folding bellows camera, c 1922

Photographic Technology

1917-1927

Apem 'Press' camera, no. W251. A collapsing camera for 2 1/2 x 3 12 inch plates. Fitted with a Soho anastigmat lens f/4.5-22. Fabric focal plane shutter 18/24/36/75/150/300/800/B/T. Folding wire frame finder. Sliding rising and cross from (little movement). Helical focusing. Focusing screen missing. Apem. Patent no 170719/21. Overall (deployed): 170 mm x 160 mm x 135 mm.

Apem Press camera

Photographic Technology

1925