Folding stand camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Lancaster patent lens with iris disphragm: f/10; rising and cross front, swing back; track and pinion focusing on lens panel; ground glass screen in Lancaster patent swing-out mount. Lancaster 1893 Instantograph camera 1893
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 1888
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 1889
Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. With a W Banks Bolton wide angle lens F: 5 1/2 inches rotating wheel with stops f/17, 23, 35, 46 No. 56. Sliding rising and cross front. Front standard fixed. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, double extension. Reversible back with hinged ground glass screen. Vertical swing back. Square bellows. Reynolds and Branson. Reynolds and Branson quarter plate stand camera 1895-1905
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 1884-1894
Magazine box camera for 2 x 2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, of fixed focus and aperture, viewfinder lens focusing on ground glass at rear of camera, both lenses on a common panel, slid by rod and knob at rear. Rotary shutter 12 plates carried in sliding magazine below camera body. Rack and pinion drive brings each plate in turn under slot below focal plane. Spring loaded slide allows plate to fall into magazine. Marion and Co. The Academy Camera No 2 1886
Box camera for 5 x 4 inch plates or rollfilm holder. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb universal lens, rotating plate with four apertures, sector shutter, two reflecting viewfinders, rack and pinion focusing to about 3 feet. Ground glass focusing screen in spring loaded frame. Separate roll holder and counter for 50 exposures. Darkslide missing. Eastman Kodak. 1890-1897. No 4 Kodak Junior camera 1890-1897
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 1959-1962
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 1870-1889
Camera, British Rail, Underwood dryplate camera in leather case. Underwood dryplate camera in leather case
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
Zeiss Ikon 'Miroflex' quarter plate folding reflex camera (dismantled and incomplete), c.1926. Zeiss Ikon 'Miroflex' quarter plate folding reflex camera (dismantled and incomplete) 1925
Butler's patent, tri-colour camera with Trinar Astigmat lens, No 54, by J Lancaster & Son, Birmingham, 1905. Butler's patent No 54. Butler's Patent Tri-Colour Camera 1905
Ensign folding bellows camera for plates and cutfilm negative size 3 1/4 x 4 1/4". Wood and metal construction covered in black leather. Fitted with a Dallmeyer No.2 series XV Serrac F.4.5 135mm lens in an ACME pre-set shutter 1sec - 1/100 B. & T made by Ilex Optical Co. Houghton c.1920 Ensign Folding Bellows Camera, c 1920 1915-1925
The Cameo folding bellows camera for negatives 2 1/2 x 3 1/2". Rising front and side movement. With brilliant reflex optical finder fitted in top left corner. With wire frame finder. Fitted with a Wallace Heaton Zodillar F.3.8 105mm in a ring Compur shutter, speeds 1 sec 1/250 and slef timing device. Made of wood, metal and covered in black leather. With Rollfilm holder. c.1929. The Cameo Folding Bellows Camera 1920
'The International' folding bellows tailboard field or stand camera, case and three book form double darkslides. With one sliding panel. The 'Rectigraph' lens is a Rapid Rectilinear approx 12" focal length, aperture F.8. Iris diaphragm was added later. Originally fitted with Waterhouse stops. Lancaster. c. 1885 'The International' Folding Bellows Tailboard Field or Stand Camera, Case and Three Book Form Double Darkslides. 1887
The Cameo folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm, negative size 3 1/4 x 5 1/2. Drop-front pull-out standard with double bellows extension. Rack and pinion focusing. Lens panel has rising cross front. Fitted with a Beck Symmetircal F.8 approx 6.5" lens mounted in a Lukos II everset shutter, speeds 1/25 1/100sec B. & T. With back ground-glass screen and brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Wood construction covered in black leather with aluminium base. All fittings nickel plated. Houghton-Butcher c.1914 The Cameo folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm 1913
A folding bellows field and stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. Very likely a Thornton Pickard model. Circa. 1900. Also present is a satchel, three bookform double darkslides and a lens and case. Folding Bellows Field and Stand Camera, Satchel, Three Bookform Double Darkslides and a Lens and Case. circa 1900
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 and One Darkslide. circa 1922
Goerz Tenax folding bellows camera for rollfim No.120, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4". DRop-front pull-out type. With worm gear mechanism, focusing range 3ft to infintiy. Fitted with Goerz Dagor F.6.8 105mm lens in a Dial set Compur shutter, speeds 1-1/150 sec B. & T. With brilliant optical waist-level viewfinder attached to front standard. All metal construction with leather covering. With leather carrying case. c.1920 Goerz Tenax folding bellows camera for rollfim No.120 circa 1920
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 for plates or cutfilm 5 x4. Fitted with two shutters circa 1950
Folding camera for 20x12" plates. Kodak Anastigmat lens F:14" f/5.6 No TT286008; calibrated rising front; rack focusing on front and back; bed. Large vertical swing on front. Sprung focusing screen; pendulum level. Horizontal swing back. In case with two blockforce double darkslides. Folmer and Schwing Banquet Camera
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 The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm size 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" circa 1906
Gandolfi 12 x 10 field camera. Cooke Series V, Anastigmat lens, 16 inch, f/8, Serial No 74381. About 1930. With four double dark slides; six whole plate adaptors; one quarter plate adaptor; one roller blind shutter; five lens panels; Ross Anastigmat, wide angle lens, f6.5; Taylor Hobson wide angle lens, Series VII B, Serial No 125423. Gandolfi Field Camera 1930
Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates, fitted with R and J Beck rectilinear 7 inch lens Serial No 2448. With lens cap, set of Waterhouse stops and one double dark slide. Manufactured by Scovill Manufacturing Co., USA, 1887. Overall (closed): 245 mm x 152 mm x 277 mm. Scovill Detective camera for 4x5 inch plates
Dr. Merthe's colour camera, manufactured by Bennpohl, Berlin, 1903. With red leather bellows. No lens. Overall (deployed): 535 mm x 175 mm x 250 mm. Dr Merthe's colour camera 1903
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
Patent Instantograph camera by J. Lancaster & Son; with double dark slide and canvas case, 1888. Patent Instantograph Camera 1888
Collapsing camera for 2 1/4 x 1 5/8 inch plates. Fitted with a Murer anastigmat lens F:70mm f/5.5-25 with helical focusing mount. Fabric focal plane, optical frame finder and ground glass screen fitted. No.3358. With 6 darkslides. Murer Plate Camera