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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

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

Photographic Technology

c. 1925
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

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853
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

Universal Special Pattern B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1909

Century Model 46 plate camera

Photographic Technology

1900-1907

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1860
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

Plate camera with bellows

Photographic Technology

c.1888

Compass miniature camera

Photographic Technology

1937
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Ensign Klito folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm negative size 3 1/2 x 5 1/2. Drop-front pull-out type with double extension bellows. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted in a Plutar Extra Rapid Aplanat F.8 lens mounted in an Ensign Simplex II everset shutter, speeds 1/25 1/100 B. & T. With back ground-glass screen and waist-level viewfonder.Of wood and metal construction with black leather cover. Houghton, c 1922.

Ensign Klito folding bellows camera, c 1915

Photographic Technology

1910-1920
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
Folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Fitted with a Busch Tiarnar Anastigmat lens F:15cm f/4.5-36 No.267107. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B/T. Screw rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Reflecting viewfinder missing. Ground glass focusing screen with folding hood.

Glunz model 60/I plate camera

Photographic Technology

1920
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
Klimax folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates or cutfilm. Drop-front pull-out type. Double extension. Focusing by rack and pinion. Fitted with Aldis Uno Anastigmat F.7.7 lens mounted in an Ensign Lukos III pneumatic everset shutter with speeds 1sec-1/100 B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder, ground glass back and optical direct vision viewfinder. Made of wood and metal with black leather cover.

Klimax folding bellows camera, c 1922

Photographic Technology

c.1922
Klimax folding bellows camera for plates or cutfilm, negative size 3 1/2 x 5 1/2.Drop-front pull-out type with double extension bellows. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Beck Mutar Anastigmat F.6 Patent Series 11 No.12 lens mounted in a pneumatic Lukos 111 everset shutter, speeds 1 1/100sec B T. & C. With back ground-glass screen and waist-level viewfinder with spiritlevel attached. Of wood and metal construction covered in black leather. Houghton c.1922

Klimax folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1922
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
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
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
Ernemann Heag I plate camera made by Ernemann, Dresden. Folding metal plate camera for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 plates. Ernemann Detective Aplanat lens No.00. F:110mm, f6.8-32. Shutter 2 blade 1/2/5/25/50/100/T/B. Sliding rising and cross front; Lever focusing inf. - 3'. Rotating reflecting finder. With filmpack adaptor. In original carton.

Ernemann Heag I plate camera

Photographic Technology
Folding camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches plates. Fitted with an Aldis Uno anastigmat lens F: 7.5 inches f/7.7-45. Lukos III shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Lens and shutter on 2 point bayonet mount. Large reflecting rotating brilliant finder with missing level. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Ground glass focusing screen cross front. NO. D.10508.

Klimax plate camera

Photographic Technology

1912
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
Wallace Heaton, London. Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2" plates; Zodellar Anastigmatic lens F:105mm f/3.8; rimset Compur shutter 1-1/250 sec. delayed action; reflecting finder; wire frame finder missing; optical frame finder added; rack and pinion focusing; double extension; screw rising front; in leather case with 4 single metal darkslides.

Zodel Regular camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1930
The Cameo camera. Folding wooden plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates quarter plates. Single lens; F: 4 1/2, f8-44, TBI everset shutter, pneumatic valve. Sliding rising front. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder. Sliding focusing. (M 4508)

The Cameo camera

Photographic Technology

1908
Le Franceville camera. L F G and Cie. Miniature sliding body camera. 4. 5x4. 5x6 cm. Simple lens, sliding strip 'shutter'. Takes 40x40mm plate. Overall: 50 mm x 50 mm x 66 mm.

Le Franceville camera

Photographic Technology

1910
Tele-photo Cycle Poco camera, made by the Rochester Camera Company. Folding bellows plate camera for 4 x 5" plates. Symmetrical lens c.F.6", f8-256 in Bausch and Lomb Unicom shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. Sliding rising front. Double extension bellows. Swing back. Rack and pinion focussing. Reflecting finder incorporating ball-bearing level. Ground glass screen. In leather case with 6 wooden darkslides. (M4882).

Tele-photo cycle Poco camera

Photographic Technology
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
Klimax folding plate camera, for 4 3/4" plates. Wooden body, aluminium frame and base. Aldis Uno anastigmatic lens. F7.7-64; Bausch and Lomb shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Lens and shutter on quick-release flange. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. Double extension bellows. Brilliant reflecting finder with spirit level.

Klimax folding camera

Photographic Technology
Folding camera for 9x12cm plates. Beck Symmetrical lens f/8-45; Automatic shutter 1/2/5/50/100/B/T. Lens and shutter on two pin locking mount. Rack and pinion focusing, sliding rising and cross front. Drop baseboard. Ground glass focusing screen. Brilliant refelcting rotating finder. In leather case with six single metal dark slides and focusing cloth.

Cameo camera

Photographic Technology

1908
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
Folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Zeiss Tessar lens, F:13.5 cm. f/4.5-32. No 2417842. Compur shutter, 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T, with delayed action. Added flash socket, coaxial. Rack and pinion rising and cross front. Rack and pinion focusing with double extension, Brilliant reflecting rotating finder, wire frame finder No 11862Z, "stolen from Kodak Limited" engraved on the side. Kodak AG.

Nagel recomar 33 camera

Photographic Technology

1933
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