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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Polyfoto camera

Photographic Technology

1933

Ensign Rollfilm/Plate camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1920

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Century Model 46 plate camera

Photographic Technology

1900-1907

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

Photographic Technology

c. 1925

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Compass miniature camera

Photographic Technology

1937

Universal Special Pattern B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1909

Plate camera with bellows

Photographic Technology

c.1888

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

Anschutz patent instantaneous camera, c. 1893. Made by C.P. Goerz, Berlin? Focal plane shutter box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Goerz Extra Rapid Lynkeioskop lens Series C No.1 f/7.7-43.8 No. 8532 and an Anschutz focal plane shutter 25/40/50/65/87/130/260/520/1000. With rack and pinion focusing on lens barrel. Large folding frame viewfinder. With a ground glass screen and folding hood and lens cap. C.P. Goerz. Overall: 205 mm x 164 mm x 182 mm.

Anschutz Patent Instantaneous camera

Photographic Technology

1888-1898

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

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

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, British Rail, Underwood dryplate camera in leather case.

Underwood dryplate camera in leather case

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1860

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

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

Kodak Brownie Flash 20. Plastic body box camera for 620 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. Fitted with a simple lens with rotating plate with three apertures Ev 13, 14, 15. Instantaneous shutter linked to windon. Helical focusing with click stops. Direct vision optical finder with framing marks. Built in polished flash reflector for capless flash bulbs battery compartment with capacitor circuit 22 1/2 v battery. No flash bulb fitted. Eastman Kodak. 1959-1962.

Brownie flash 20 camera

Photographic Technology

1959-1962

Ernemann Cronos 'B' folding bellows camera for negative size 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 using plates or cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out type with lever focusing. Fitted with a Nostar Anastigmat F.6.8 105mm lens mounted in a Zeiss Ikon everset shutter with speeds 1sec-1/100 B. & T. Lens panel has rising front and side movement. With ground glass screen and brilliant waist-level viewdinedr with spirit level. Metal construction with black leather cover. c.1924

Ernemann Cronos 'B' folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1924

Newman and Guardia Sibyl camera, a folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Taylor, Taylor and Hobson Cooke lens Series III F: 4.4 inches, f/6.5-45. No. 18706. Between lens shutter 2/4/8/16/32/64/100. Cocking lever marked 0 and +. Sliding rising front. Lever focusing with two extension positions marked 1 and 2. Optical frame finder on front panel only. Ground glass focusing screen.

Newman and Guardia Sibyl Camera

Photographic Technology

1908

The Challenge wooden folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". With rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a fixed focus doublet lens about 6" f.1 and with wheel stops. Mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter (time and instantaneous). Lens panel of rising front movement. Mahogany with brass fittings. Lizars, c1895.

Lizars 'The Challenge' folding belows plate camera, c 1895

Photographic Technology

1890-1900

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.

3A Pocket Premo C camera

Photographic Technology

1904-1916

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 10 x 15cm plates. Lens and shutter missing. Rack and pinion rising front, sliding cross front - considerable movement. Rack and pinion focusing. Sliding double extension. Folding optical frame finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Provision for rollable stereo septum (missing).

Voigtlander Alpin camera

Photographic Technology

1907-1928

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

Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Originally fitted with an Ernemann detective Aplanat lens No. f/6.8-36 No. 206029. Ernemann patent pneumatic shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Sliding focusing. Sliding rising and cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Folding optical frame finder automatically erected when the camera is opened. Ground glass focusing screen with collapsing hood. With cable release and a pair of holders for 3 metal darkslides. No.162011.

Ernemann plate camera

Photographic Technology

Folding camera for 6.5 x 9cm plates. Fitted with an Ernemann Detective aplanat lens no.00.346479 f/6.6-36. Ernemann shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Cable release. Brilliant ground glass focusing screen No.2671. Ernemann.

Ernemann plate camera

Photographic Technology

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.

Ernemann miniature plate camera

Photographic Technology

1920

Dubroni camera, 1864. Wooden solid body camera for wet collation process. takes plate 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, held by springs against an earthenware container, into which sensitizing and processing chemicals can be introduced by a glass pipette (missing). f/4 Dubroni portrait lens No 8896, rack and pinion focusing. Hinged back with orange glass to observe progress of process. With rubber and glass pipet.

Dubroni Daguerreotype Camera

Photographic Technology

1864

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.

Pony Premo No 5 camera

Photographic Technology

1898-1900

No. 4 Bullet Special model camera of 1896, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Box camera for 103 rollfilm or single plate holders, 4 x 5 inches. Achromatic lens, rotating plate with three apertures, rotary shutter T/I, sliding focusing, two reflecting finders. Eastman Kodak Company, 1896.

No 4 Bullet Special model of 1896

Photographic Technology

1896

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.

Falling plate magazine camera

Photographic Technology

Folding camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens US 8-128, Bausch & Lomb Victor shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T with pneumatic release valve. Sliding rising front, sliding focusing, reflecting rotating finder on base board, rotable back with ground glass focusing screen No 90432. Swing back. Rochester Optical Company, 1898-1900.

Pony Premo No 4

Photographic Technology

1898-1900

The Peckham Wray camera for plates or cutfilm 5 x4. Fitted with two shutters, a focal plane roller-blind shutter, built into the body of the camera with speeds from 1/15 to 1/800sec. and T. Second is a Synchro Compur ring pre-set shutter, speeds 1sec 1/500 sec and B into which the lens, a Wray Lustar F.4.5 135mm f.1 is mounted. Both are fitted into a helical mount. With two mirrors and simple wire frame finder mounted on the left of a reflex finder. Wray optical Works, c.1950

The Peckham Wray camera

Photographic Technology

c.1950

Scoville 'Waterbury' detective camera. Box camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens with two circular stops f/15 and f/20. Rotary shutter with adjustable tension. Level focusing. Single reflecting finder, focusing screen in spring back storage space underneath room for double darkslide. Patented Oct. 16 1888. c.1889. Manufactured by Scoville Mfg. Co., USA. Overall: 190 mm x 192 mm x 186 mm.

Scoville detective camera

Photographic Technology

1884-1894

Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Zodellax No.1 anastigmat lens no. 84375 F:12cm f/4.5-45. Compur shutter, 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. Hooded ground glass screen (broken). Made for Wallace Heaton Ltd.

Zodel plate camera

Photographic Technology

1925

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera negatives 3 1/4 x 5 (9 x 12) for plates and cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out standrtad with double extension bellows with rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Bauscj & Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens approx F.8 mounted in a Kodak ball bearing shutter, speeds 1/25 sec 1/100 B. & T. With back ground-glass focusing screen with waist-level finder. Made of wood and metal covered in black leather. Houghton, c.1920

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera, c 1920

Photographic Technology

1920

Collapsing camera for 9 x 6.5 cm plates. Fitted with a Goerz anastigmat Dagor lens F: 90mm f/6.8-32 No.334377. 3 blade compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Folding optical frame finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Wheel focusing on body No. 67409. Covered in bottle green leather with matching filmpack adaptor. C.P. Goerz sold by the London Stereoscopic company limited.

Goerz CDV Tenax camera

Photographic Technology

Cycle Poco No.3 plate camera, made by the Rochester Camera Company. Folding wooden plate camera for 5 x 7" plates. Baush and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens F 7 1/2", f8-128; Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T cocking wheel, pneumatic release valve. Sliding rising front. Rotating reflecting finder on baseboard. Hooded focussing scree (glass missing). Rack and pinion focussing 100-6'. Double extension.

Cycle Poco No 3 plate camera

Photographic Technology

1900

Linhof Techinal standard press folding bellows camera 5 x4 but fitted with 1/4 plate back. With double extension bellows, coupled rangefinder and interchangeable lenses. Each lens mounted on own lens panel. Base board can be placed at 90 adn 135. Front standard has rising front movement. Fitted with a Schneider Press Xenar F.4.7 127mm with Synchro Compur shutter with speeds 1sec - 1/500 and B. synchronisation lever has 2 settings, M for flashbulb and X for electronic flash. c. 1950

Linhof Techinal standard press folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1951

Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Originally fitted with an Amar anastigmat lens F:135mm, no.40653. Vario shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing (knob missing). Screw rising, sliding cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen with folding hood.

Quarter-Plate Hand Camera

Photographic Technology