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The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Polyfoto camera

Photographic Technology

1933

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Ensign Rollfilm/Plate camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1920

Pantascopic camera No 32

Photographic Technology

1862

Century Model 46 plate camera

Photographic Technology

1900-1907

Universal Special Pattern B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1909

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

Photographic Technology

c. 1925
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

Compass miniature camera

Photographic Technology

1937
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
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
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
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
Twelve lens repeating, back wet plate camera, c1870.

Twelve lens repeating, back wet plate camera, c 1870

Photographic Technology

1865-1875

Improved 'Academy' Quarter Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 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
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

Plate camera with bellows

Photographic Technology

c.1888
Camera, British Rail, Underwood dryplate camera in leather case.

Underwood dryplate camera in leather case

Miscellanea & Curiosities
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
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

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1860
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
Lenoar folding bellows plate camera for plates or cutfilm 2 1/2 x 3 1/2". Drop-front pull-out type. Fitted with Leonar Periscope lens F.II mounted in a Leonar shutter with I., B. & T. settings. With ground-glass screen and brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Metal construction with black leather cover. c.1914

Leonar folding bellows plate camera

Photographic Technology

c.1914
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.

minimum palmos camera

Photographic Technology
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
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
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
Whole plate camera by Hare, c.1885 (label inscription: C Hare/Manufacturer/26 Calthorpe Street/London). Folding stand camera for 5 x 7 1/2 inch plate. Fitted with a J.H. Dallmeyer lens No. 2, patent, achromat with wheel stops 15, 2 x 3/. Tailboard design. Rack and pinion focusing on back. Extra extension by sliding front with locking arms. Sliding rising and cross front. Vertical swing back. Ground glass screen hinged at top. Provision for stereo septum (missing). With focusing cloth. 3959. With one single wet plate slide (contains 2 slides?).

Late Wet Plate Camera by George Hare

Photographic Technology

1880-1890
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
Premo No.12 folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm 2 1/2 x 3 1/2. Drop-front pull-out type with manual focusing. Fitted with a Doublet lens approx F.II mounted in a Kodak ball-bearing shutter 1/25 1/100sec B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder.Made of metal with black leather covering. c. 1914

Premo No.12 folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1914
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
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.

Premoette No 1a camera

Photographic Technology

1909-1912
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
Folding plate camera 9x12cm. Alpha Periskop lens F:13.5cm f/11. Derval wheelset shutter.

Zeiss Ikon Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1926
Folding camea for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Voigtalnder Heliar lens F: 10.5cm f/4.5-22 NO.392892. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing double extension. Screw rising front (spirit level in knob), sliding cross front. Lens and shutter on bayonet mount. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Folding wire frame finder. Ground glass focusing screen. With three single metal darkslides. Rollfillm adaptor for 120 rollfilm. Depth of field scale. Voigtlander.

Voigtlander Bergheil camera

Photographic Technology
Salex focal plane plate camera. A collapsing strut-form camera for 3 1/4 inch by 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Salex Anastigmat B lens, F: 13.5cm, f/4.5-36 in helical focusing mount. Focal plane shutter 15/25/50/100/150/250/500/1000/. Set by pulling put cocking knob and winding blind edge to marks in focal plane frame. With simple flap shutter attachment to lens for time exposure. Optical frame finder. Made in Italy for the City Sale and Exchange, London. 'Salex' is derived from an abbreviated form of the retailer's name - the City Sale and Exchange. This company never actually made cameras but sold other makers' products under their own name. this camera was probably imported from Italy or Germany.

salex focal plane plate camera

Photographic Technology

1907
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 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
Ernemann folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm 2 1/2 x 3 1/2". Drop-front pull-out type. Manual focusing. Fitted with Ernemann Detective Aplanat F.6.8 105mm mounted in 3-speed shutter 1/25, 1/100 sec B. & T. With ground glass focusing screen and brilliant finder with plate holder. Wood and metal with black leather covering. c.1922

Ernemann folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1922
Collapsing camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with Krauss Zeiss tessar lens F:107mm f/6.8 calibrated 4, 2, 1, 0.5, 0.4. shutter cocked and fired by sliding lens cover plate. Calibrated 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 and T. Optical frame finder front lens in lens cover plates. Helical focusing by sliding lever, to 5 metres. Screw in supplementary lens for 1 metre. Ground glass screen (glass missing) No.3782. L. Gaumont & Cie.

Gaumont Block Notes camera

Photographic Technology
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
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.

Ernemann heag 1 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
Lazy tong strut collapsing camera for 15x5cm approx. plates. Coupled coincidence rengefinder working on struts. Oskar Mikut, Dresden Mikutar lens F:130mm, apperture calibrated 2.3.4.5. No 1162, Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T, delayed action. Mirrored beam splitting system behind lens gives three pictures side by side. Sprung hinged filter holders 4.5cm square in front of focal plane, Direct optical finder with folding back sight. Focusing Screen.

Mikut colour camera

Photographic Technology

1936