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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
All-distance pocket Ensign folding bellows camera for rollfilm No.120 2 1/4" x 3 1/4". Fitted with meniscus lens mounted in an Houghton-Butcher shutter 'Synchro A'. Three settings I,B, T. With rotating disc type diaphragm, small, meduium and large. Has two position focus, View and portrait. With brilliant viewfinder. All metal constructon with black crackle finish. c 1925

'All-distance' pocket Ensign folding bellows camera, c 1925

Photographic Technology

1924-1934
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 Dallmeyer Stigmat F.65 3" f.1 lens mounted in an Ensign Sector shutter No II, speeds 1sec - 1/100 B. & T. Made of French polished mahogany with black leather cover and brass fittings and red leather bellows. Houghton, c.1905

Sanderson folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1904-1914
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
'The Challenge' folding bellows hand camera. Drop-front type with rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Taylor T. Hoson lens F.7 5" f.1 mounted in a Bausch & Lomb pneumatic shutter, speeds 1sec to 1/100sec B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder attached to base board. Of mahogany with brass fittings. J Lizars c.1910

'The Challenge' folding bellows hand camera

Photographic Technology

c.1910
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

Photographic Technology

1920
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
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
Folding plate camera. 1904

folding plate camera

Photographic Technology

1904
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
Contessa Nettel folding bellows camera for plates or sheet-film size 3 1/4 x 4 1.4". Has double extension anmd focusing is by rack and pinion. Front panel has rising front and side movement. Fitted with a Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar F.4.5 150mm lens mounted in a dial set Compur shutter with speeds 1 sec to 1/150 B. & T. With back of ground glass and brilliant waist-level finder on front with spirit level. All metal construction with black leather cover. C.1922

Contessa Nettel folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

c.1922
Thornton-Pickard Imperial Pocket Camera. Metal folding plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. RR type lens F:6", f8-45. B and L shutter 25/50/100/B/T everset. Screw rising cross front. Brilliant reflecting finder. (M 4505)

Thornton-Pickard Imperial Pocket Camera

Photographic Technology

1913
The Excelsior magazine plate camera. No makers name. Patent number 765. Wooden box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. RR lens with fixed focus and aperture. Adjustable sector shutter 1-2-3 by screw. T/I release buttons. Reflecting finders - 2- with metal hoods. Plates changed by turning a crank on the top of the camera. Spring-loaded claws transport the plates and there is an automatic counter on the back , numbered from 1-12. It was possibly made in Germany.

The Excelsior Magazine Plate Camera

Photographic Technology
Box type magazine plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. With simple lens, external plate with three apertures and a T/I shutter. With two brilliant reflecting finders falling plate changing mechanism with six plate holders.

box type magazine camera

Photographic Technology

c.1905
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

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Folding camera for quarterplates 4.75x3.25 inches; Dallmeyer Stigmatic lens no 2 Series II F:5.3 inches 13.5cm; compound shutter 1/250-1 sec; rack and pinion focusing, double extension; rising front; reversible back; Daza reflecting finder on baseboard.

Home-made hand and stand camera

Photographic Technology

1910
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
Folding metal quarter plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Dallmeyer No 1 Series IV Stigmatic lens F: 4 3/4 inches f/6.3-32. Ibos shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Rack and pinion rising front, sliding cross front, rack and pinion focusing, double extension bellows, calibration for rear lens only, brilliant reflecting rotating finder with hood, added optical frame finder, ground glass focusing screen with collapsing hood Serial No 48576, lens Serial no 74795. Westminster Photographic Exchange.

quarter plate camera

Photographic Technology

1920
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
Mayfield pocket camera. Folding hand camera in polished ebonite for plates 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. f/8-64 lens, RR type. Rotary shutter with speed adjustment. Ground glass focusing screen. c. 1888. Manufactured by Mayfield, Cobb and Co., Ltd., 41-35 Victoria Street, London. With fitting for flash.

Mayfield's pocket camera

Photographic Technology

1883-1893
Kodak studio camera No 1. For up to 10x8" plates; no lens; rack focusing on back; vertical and horizontal swing back; repeating back, with 1/1 plate sprung focusing screen. Overall (back): 345 mm x 460 mm x 92 mm; overall (camera): 510 mm x 135 mm x 610 mm.

Kodak studio camera No 1

Photographic Technology
One-shot tri-colour camera made by W Watson & Sons Ltd. Aaron Hamburger design. Serial No. 14626. Back and side plates. For 1/1 plates; transparent reflector (missing) splits beam in two paths - straight through onto bi-pack of two plates at back, in special holder with rubber covered pressure plate; reflected beam onto single plate at side; fitted with Ross Rapid Symmetrical lens No 22403 (not original). Rack focusing, with linkage swinging back holder to allow for toeing in at different distances.

One-Shot Tri-Colour Camera

Photographic Technology
A-form collapsing camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a C.P. Goerz Syntor Doppel anastigmat Series D lens F: 125mm f/6.8-45 No. 206878. Compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Pneumatic release valve. Sliding rising front. Helical screw focusing by lever. Shew and Co.

Xit camera

Photographic Technology
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

Photographic Technology

1930
15 x 12" plate camera made by W. Watson & Sons Ltd, 313 High Holborn, London. New Patent model, sold by W. Morley, 70 Upper Street, London. With TTH lens No. 16760, 12 x 10 RR Eq. focus. 16"; f8 - 64 iris diaphragm. Rising front (sliding) swing front. Dou

15 x 12 Inch Plate Camera

Photographic Technology
Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss anastigmat lens F: 240mm f/6.3-45 No.38222. N&G shutter 2/4/8/16/32/64/100/T lever focusing. Detachable reflecting finder. Integral bag changing box. Automatic exposure counter 7 (of 12) metal holders. Holders moved into back by lever. Swing back. Newman and Guardia.

Nydia camera

Photographic Technology
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
Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Taylor Taylor Hobson Cooke anastigmat lens F: 5 inches f/6.3-45. No.53925. Ensign sector shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing. Sliding rising and cross front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Houghtons Limited.

Folding Klito camera

Photographic Technology

1912
Box camera for 9x12cm plates; 9 small lenses in 3x3 rows. Front flap folds down, with holder for photograph, for copying; internally divided into 9 compartments.

Stamp camera (?Holborn)

Photographic Technology
Linos plate camera, made by Romain Talbot, Berlin. Folding wooden plate camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. RR lens F:6", f8.4-64; one blade shutter settings marked 1-9 and Z cocked by key. Sliding rising front ; swing front, sliding focussing. (M4635)

Linos plate camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1898
Folding camera, bellows form with double extension rack and pinion focussing. Rising and swing front. Ball bearing level; brilliant reflex finder with rotating mask. With 6 metal plate holders, in Newman Guardia leather camera case.

Sanderson Hand Camera with quarterplate back

Photographic Technology

1910
Instantograph camera made by J Lancaster & Son. Folding camera, mahogany and brass for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. Sliding rising and cross front. Swing back. Double extension magenta bellows. Ground glass screen swings out to admit plate holder.

Instantograph folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1896
Folding camera for 9 x 6 1/2 cm plates. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar Lens F:10.5cm f/4.5-32. No 840866. Ibos shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/105/B/T. Screw rising front, rack and pinion focusing, brilliant reflecting rotating finder, with spirit level, folding wire frame finder, ground glass focusing screen with hood. No 40344. Kamera Wersk Statten.

Etui plate camera

Photographic Technology

1920
Box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. 15 simple lenses in 3 vertical rows of 5. Slide shutter exposes all lenses simultaneously. Lenses set for copying. Ground glass screen. W. Butcher.

Royal Mail camera

Photographic Technology
Collapsing plate camera (ground glass missing). Flat aluminium case opens on hinge on front panel to form triangular form camera for 3 1/4 x4 1/4" plates. T/I shutter. Meniscus lens. Rotating reflecting finder hinges away inside camera body secured by rotating lens cap and leg. Similar to Griffin's Cyco or Kindermann 'Lope'. No. 629. M 3990. Overall (deployed): 166 mm x 106 mm x 188 mm.

Collapsing plate camera

Photographic Technology
Tentax Plate Camera. Folding camera for 6 1/2 x 9cm plates. Fitted with a Goerz Dogmar lens, number 623333 F:11cm f/4.5-36. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T. Screw rising front, sliding cross front, rack and pinion focusing with double extension, brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level, ground glass focusing screen, no 273472 . With cable release. C.P. Goerz, c.1923

tenax plate camera

Photographic Technology

1923
Homemade wooden box/bellows camera with Lancaster parts; for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. Single lens with iris f8-32; no shutter. Sliding rising front, Lancaster patent wing-out focusing screen. Maroon body with grey bellows, brass trim. Double extension.

Homemade box/bellows plate camera

Photographic Technology
Sanderson hand camera, junior model

Sanderson Hand Camera, Junior Model

Photographic Technology
Folding metal plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Nagel doppel anastigmat lens F:10.5 cm f/4.5-32. No 213520. Deckel compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/T/B. Screw rising and cross front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension brilliant reflecting finder, wire frame finder, spirit level. 53756.

Nagel Recomar No18 Plate camera

Photographic Technology

1933
Ihagee plate camera made by Ihagee, Dresden. Metal folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Ihagee Anastigmat Priplex F:135mm, f6.3-36 No338927. Zenith everset shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Lever focussing inf.-1 meter. Screw rising front, sliding cross front. reflecting brilliant rotating finder with spirit level. Large wire frame finder. No. 236147. (M4489)

Ihagee plate camera

Photographic Technology

1926
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 plate camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plate. Fitted with a Zeiss Tessar lens F:10.5cm f/4.5-32. No. 683561. With a rimset Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T and delayed action. Screw rising front. Rack and pinion focusing. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Folding frame finder and pin backsight. Ground glass focusing screen. No. 43100. With Rollex 120 rollfilm back. Made by Kamera Werke sold by Sands, Hunter and Co. c.1930

Etui plate camera

Photographic Technology

1925-1935
Hand box camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; simple lens; Lancaster see-saw shutter; single reflecting finder; 6 x plates held in 3 double metal holders in changing box; each dropped in turn into exposing plane and returned to changing box after exposure.

Lancaster Omnigraph detective camera

Photographic Technology

1894
Folding plate camera for 6x4cm plates; Meter-Goerlitz Ihagee anastigmat Trioplan lens F: 7.5cm f/6.8; no. 236240; pronto shutter 1/25-1/100; lever focusing; folding optical frame finder; with 3 single metal darkslides in case; no. 7721.

Ihagee plate camera

Photographic Technology

1910-1930
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
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
Little nipper box plate camera for 1 3/4 x 2 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a simple lens, T/I shutter. Wire frame finder, no back sight. Plateholder missing. Safelight with ruby glass for nightlight. Three wooden printing frames. Unopened packet of little nipper dryplates. Small slip in type photo album "happy memories with the little nipper". Dish, plateholder and chemicals missing. Butchers.

little nipper developing and printing outfit

Photographic Technology

c. 1900
Cardboard box camera for single plate 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches, loaded in the dark. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture and focus. With a spring loaded shutter, brief time only, and a single reflecting viewfinder. Coronet Camera Co.

Coronet camera outfit

Photographic Technology

c. 1934
Ottewill plate camera. Sliding body camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Petzval type lens by J H Dallmeyer F; 6 inches c. f/3.8 with one Waterhouse stop, No 3. Rack and pinion focusing on lens, pinion missing. Serial No 3488. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing on rear panel. With repeating type back with sliding ground glass screen.

Ottewill Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1855-1865