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Folding camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Originally fitted with a Rodenstock Doppel anastigmat eurynar lens F:135mm f/6.8-45, No. 47028. Compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T but the lens has been exchanged for a 2454. Has a sliding rising front, with sliding focusing. With an Optica frame finder automatically erected when camera is opened and the original backsight replaced. Hooded focusing screen. Ernemann.

Ernemann pocket plate camera

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No. 3 Eastman plate camera series C; (back says series D). Kodak, 1901-1902

Kodak No 3 plate camera Series C

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1901-1902
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 French Doublet 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

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1890
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

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1925
Zeiss Ikon 'Miroflex' quarter plate folding reflex camera (dismantled and incomplete), c.1926.

Zeiss Ikon 'Miroflex' quarter plate folding reflex camera (d

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1925
Busch folding bellows camera hand camera ffor plates or sheetfilm size 31/4 x 4 1/4". Drop-front pull-out type. With rack and pinion focusing. With red leather bellows. Triple extension and rising front and side movement. Fitted with Busch Anastigmat Omnar Series 11 f.5.6 5 1/2" f.1 lens in a Unicum Bausch & Lomb shutter with speeds1sec to 1/100sec B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Of mahogany with nickel plated fittings with black leather cover. c.1912

Busch folding bellows camera hand camera

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1905
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

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1908
The Pocket Ray camera. Wooden folding plate camera for 4 1/3 x 4 1/4 plates. Rochester Optical Camera Co. Gem lens RR F:5" cf * Stops number 8-128, T/B/I shutter; pneumatic release valve. Sliding focussing. Rotating brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard. (M 2648). Comes with three plates, each marked '1', '4', '6'.

The Pocket Ray camera

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1904
Cycle Poco camera No. 3, made by Rochester Camera and Supply Co. Wooden folding bellows camera for 5 x 4" plates. Rapid rectilinear lens, F:6 1/2", f8-128. Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. sliding rising front; sliding focusing 100-6'. Reflecting finder on baseboard contains ball bearing for level. (M1404)

Cycle Poco Camera No 3

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1893
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

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1900
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

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Goerx Tenax folding plate camera for negatives 9x12cm. Drop-front pull-out type wuth Ernemann Doublet lens F.11 135mm f.1 mounted in a everset 3 speed shutter. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder attached to front standard. All metal and wood body with black leather cover. c.1923

Goerx Tenax folding plate camera

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1923
Busch rollfilm/plate camera. A folding camera for 118 rollfilm or plates 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with a Busch Omner anastigmat lens F:13cm f/6.8-22 and an Ibso shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. With a brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Screw rising front. Sliding cross front. Rack and pinion focusing. Scale adjustment for both the plates and film. Combination back and separate hooded focusing screen (glass missing). With Cable release. Busch AG Optische Industries. No.28931. Overall (deployed): 215 mm x 120 mm x 163 mm.

Busch Rollfilm Plate Camera

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Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Three interchangeable lens sets: Voigtlander Collinear III F:12c, f/6.8-32 No.82740. Fitted with a Busch Bis-Telar lens No.2 F:9 inches f/9-32 No.35242 with spacer and a wider angle lens F:7cm f/11-45 all in fitted case by Benetfink & Company with large flange key. Automat shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T, Iris calibrated for all three lenses. Screw and lever rising front, rack and pinion focusing. Sliding cross front. Focusing scales for wide-angle and standard lens, latter adjustable for plates or Houghtons envelope back fitted with integral screen and hood with a separate screen. No makers name but sold by Benetfink & Company. Comes with a plate holder.

Folding Quarter-Plate Camera

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1910
Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck Neostigmat lens Series IIIn N.3 f/7.7-32 No.152879. Everset shutter 25/50/100/B/T, Sliding rising front, sliding focusing. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen. Houghton's Limited.

The Folding Klito camera

Photographic Technology

1912
Dallmeyer plate camera. Box/bellows form camera for 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" plates. Dallmeyer Series 2 No. 2 stigmatic lens No. 64855 in Goerz diaphragm shutter opening f6-45. 2/3/5/10/75/100/150. Sliding rising and cross front. Focal plane shutter fitted; adjustable. Rack and pinion focussing working on rear. Fitted with Adams changing box for plates; with 24 metal cutfilm holders. Two reflecting brilliant finders; two spirit levels.

Dallmeyer plate camera

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1910
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

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c.1922
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 Beck Double Aplanat F.7.7 6" f.1 lens mounted in a Bausch & Lomb Unicum shutter, speeds 1sec - 1/100 B. & T. Made of French polished mahogany with black leather cover and brass fittings and red leather bellows. George Houghton and Sons, c.1904

The 'Sanderson' folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1904
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
Folding camea for 3 1/2 inch wide rollfilm or single plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2 f/6-64. Bausch and Lomb automat shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/B/T. Pneumatic release. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level. Screw rising and cross front. RAck and pinion focusing. DOuble extension. Drop front. COmbination back. With envelope adaptor back and 12 card plateholders. No. 203713.

Rollfilm plate camera

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Folding plate camera. 1904

folding plate camera

Photographic Technology

1904
Cunz plate camera Model 8. Folding camera for 4 inch x 5 inch plates. F:13.5cm Steinheil Munchen Doppelanastigmat Unofocal. ACG shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/T/B. Rising and cross front. Double extension bellows. Reflecting brilliant finder with spirit level

Clunz Plate Camera No 8

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Magazine plate camera, similar to Newman and Guardia models. No makers name. H.D. Taylors Series III lens Eq. F: 4.97". F.6.5-32. In compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/T/B. (Not original - case cutaway to take cable release). Two reflecting finders with caps and spirit levels. (Ground glasses missing). 12 metal plate holders in magazine with bag changer. Compartment inside holds screwdriver and tweezers. Rising and cross front movement of lens panel.

Magazine plate camera

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Folding camera, bellows form with double extension rack and pinion focussing. Rising and swing front. Ball bearing level; brilliant reflex finder with rotating mask..

Sanderson Hand Camera With Quarterplate Back

Photographic Technology

1910
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

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Folding camera for 5 x 7 inch plates. No lens or shutter, rack and pinion focusing triple extension, drop front mechanism, rack and pinion rising front, rack and pinion swing back, short supplementary bed clipped inside top, reversible back with swing out ground glass screen in black leather, black paint and chromium plate. Double spirit level on base board. Eastman Kodak, c.1914.

No 10 Premo camera

Photographic Technology

1909-1919
Folding camera for 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Zeiss tessar lens F: 12cm f/4.5-32 No.1182162. Rimset compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/B/T delayed action. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Screw rising front. Brilliant reflecting rotating diner. FOlding wiore frame finder. NO. 56883. Kamera WErkeStalten.

KW etui camera

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Kamera-Werkstatten, Dresden. Folding camera for 9x12cm plates. Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:13.5cm, f/4.5-36, No 65277. Compur shutter, wheel-set, 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing. Sliding rising front. Brilliant reflecting rotating finder. Ground glass focusing screen. With one metal darkslide and Rollex patent rollfilm back for 120 rollfilm.

Etui camera

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1920
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

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Folding all metal press camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. 2 pin flash Kodak anastigmat lens F: 6 3/8 inches f/4.5-32, No. EM32-773K. No.3 Kodak Superatic shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T/ Delayed action. Graflex No.3 release synchroniser device. Rack and pinion focusing, coupled coincidence rangefinder. Sliding rising and cross front. Drop front baseboard. Wire frame sports finder. Direct vision optical finder. Focal plane shutter 30/50/125/250/500/1000/T, fabruc vertical run. Spring back ground glass focusing screen. Baseboard plaque engraved RHF. Overall (deployed): 220 mm x 235 mm x 290 mm. Camera, equipment case; darkslides and lens hood

Speed Graphic Camera and equipment

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1947-1958
The Clack folding bellows camera for negatives 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" plates or cutffilm. Drop-front pull-out type/ With double extension adn rack and pinion focusing. With rising front and side movement. Lens is interchangable. Fitted with a Lunar Anastigmat Series A F.4.8 120mm f.1 lens made by Rietschel. Mounted in a compund shutter with speeds 1sec 1/250sec B. & Z. With two levers adn brilliant waist-level viewfinder. Made of wood and metal covered in black leather. c.1910

The Clack folding bellows camera

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c.1910
Folding bellows hand or stand camera for plates or sheet size 4 1/4" x 3 1/4". Double extension, tapered red leather bellows, reversing and tilting back. Lens panel of rising front and side movement. Two metal struts for rigidity. Rack and pinion focusing. Fitted with a Rapid Rectilinear lens F.8 6" f.1 lens. Has no shutter. Made of mahogany with nickel plated fittings. c.1906

Folding bellows hand or stand camera

Photographic Technology

c.1906
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

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c.1890
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
Goerz folding bellows camera for plates or sheetfilm. Drop-front pull-out type. Rack and pinion focusing. With rising front and corss movement. Fitted with Goerz Anastigmat Series 111 Dagor F.4.5 166mm lens mounted in a pneumatic Compound shutter, speeds 1 sec tp 1/200sec B. & T. With brilliant waist-level viewfinder attached to front standard. With Rada rollfilm holder 2 1/4 x 3 1/4. c.1912. All metal construction covered in black leather. c.1912

Goerz folding bellows camera for plates or sheetfilm

Photographic Technology

c.1912
Folding Mentor camera, no. 16937. A collapsing press type camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Fitted with an extra rapid aplanet lens, No.1, f/8-44. Focal plane shutter with 11 slit widths and 6 tensions, 66 speed from 1/2 to 1/300sec. Lens panel rotates to give sliding rising or dross front. Helical focusing by lever. Folding optical frame finder. Ground glass focusing screen (missing). Goltz & Breutmann. Overall (deployed): 176 mm x 170 mm x 170 mm.

Folding mentor camera

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Apem 'Press' camera, no. W251. A collapsing camera for 2 1/2 x 3 12 inch plates. Fitted with a Soho anastigmat lens f/4.5-22. Fabric focal plane shutter 18/24/36/75/150/300/800/B/T. Folding wire frame finder. Sliding rising and cross from (little movement). Helical focusing. Focusing screen missing. Apem. Patent no 170719/21. Overall (deployed): 170 mm x 160 mm x 135 mm.

Apem Press camera

Photographic Technology

1925
Wizard senior camera. Folding camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat No.2 lens, f/6-64 N0.3942. Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Sliding rising front. RAck and pinion focusing, double extension. Spirit level on baseboard, reflecting finder missing. Reversible spring back with ground glass screen. Korona patent, 1902.

Wizard Senior camera

Photographic Technology

1905
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
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
Voigtlander Bergheil folding camera for plates or cutfilm 9 x12cm. Fitted with triple extension bellows. WIth brilliant viewfinder and framefinder on front standard. Fitted with a Voigtl Geliar F.4.5 15 cm lens in a dial set Compur shuttter speeds 1sec - 1/200sec in bayonet mount. c.1927.

Voigtlander Bergheil folding camera, c 1927

Photographic Technology

1922-1932
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. With 1 wooden darkslide for Instantograph camera made by J Lancaster & Son.

Instantograph folding bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1896
Lancaster 'The International' camera. Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates manufactued by J Lancaster & Son, Birmingham, 1885-1905. In canvas case with tripod head, focusing cloth, single double darkslide, bookform tripod legs.

'The International' Camera

Photographic Technology

1885-1905
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

Photographic Technology

1905
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
Folding camera for 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch film packs. Fitted with an achromatic lens, iris diaphragm numbers 1-4, ball bearing shutter, 25/50/B/T. Focusing by two slot location of lens panel. Collapsing optical frame finder fitted. No 16484. Eastman Kodak.

premoette junior camera

Photographic Technology

1911
Folding camera for 4 x 5 inch plates. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens US 4-128. Eastman triple action shutter B/I/T slow-fast adjustment, pneumatic release valve at bottom. Sliding and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, swing back, brilliant reflecting rotating finder with hood on base board. Ground glass focusing screen with hood in spring mount. Eastman Kodak.

Eastman plate camera No 4

Photographic Technology

c. 1903
Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates or roll holder. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens, rotating plate with three apertures f/8, 16, 32 Kodet shutter T/I adjustable speed slow-fast. Rotating reflecting finder, sliding focusing. Ground glass focusing screen Eastman roll holder for 4 inch wide roll film, exposure counter, NO 439. Camera 623. Eastman Kodak.

No 3 folding Kodet camera

Photographic Technology

1894-1896
Folding mahogany plate camera for 10x8 inch plates. Lens by Lerebours and Secretan, Paris. No 4949, F: 16 inches, 4 unmarked disc stops at lens front. Brass lens cap. Petzval type. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing on front panel. Reversible back, ground glass missing. Makers nameplate missing. With two bookform wooden double darkslides, with adaptors for smaller plates.

folding plate camera

Photographic Technology

1845-1890
ICA V.P.K. camera for plates of cutfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2". With single bellows extensionFront standrad pull sout until infinity point which then uses lever focusing. fitted with a Zeiss Tessar F.6.3 75mm lens in an Ever-SEt shutter with 3-speeds, T. & B. With brilliant optical reflex finder. c.1920

ICA VPK camera

Photographic Technology

c.1920