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Camera Flap Shutter

Photographic Technology

1850-1870

Pneumatic pre-set shutter

Photographic Technology

1897-1905

Unicum Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1891

Roller Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

Jackson's instantaneous shutter. Title on bone inset plaque.

Jackson's instantaneous shutter

Photographic Technology

1850-1900

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Waterhouse Stops

Photographic Technology

1870-1880

Flip-flap shutter

Photographic Technology

1890-1895

Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1888

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1850-1860

Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1880-1910

Goerz Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

Stereo Flap Shutter

Photographic Technology

1850

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905-1910

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Pneumatic Shutter Pump

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

Box for Thornton-Pickard Shutter

Photographic Technology

1892-1930

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905-1910

Pneumatic Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1890-1900

Compur Diaphragm Shutter

Photographic Technology

1915-1925

Waterhouse-type Shots

Photographic Technology

1875 -1885

Roller Blind Camera Shutter

Photographic Technology

1910-1915

Camera Shutter Release

Photographic Technology

1920-1940

Leonar Extra Rapid Aplanat lens in Vario shutter. F=130mm, f6.3; iris calibrated from f8-32. ACG Vario shutter 25/50/100/B/T. Cable release socket.

Leonar extra rapid aplanat lens in Vario shutter

Photographic Technology

VS 18 Kodak Automatic shutter. Twoblade shutter 1/2/5/25/100/T/B. Mechanical and pneumatic releases. Eastman Kodak Company of New Jersey.

Kodak automatic shutter

Photographic Technology

Kodak anastigmat lens F: 126mm f/6.3-32; front cell focusing mount. No 1 Diodak shutter 25/50/100/T/B.

Kodak Anastigmat lens in No 1 Diodak shutter

Photographic Technology

Kodak lens and Kodex shutter, made by Eastman Kodak. Assembled at Kodak Limited. F:131mm, f/7.9-45 RR type lens; Kodex shutter number 1/25/50/T/T everset. (M204)

Kodak lens and Kodex shutter

Photographic Technology

1929

Roller blind shutter for 14mm lens, mount adjustable between 1/15th and 1/90th second. Thornton Pickard, c.1896

Thornton Pickard snap shot shutter

Photographic Technology

1891-1901

Wooden drop shutter possibly by George Mason and Co. 38mm lens aperture on detachable lens panel. Provision for pneumatic release.

wooden guillotine shutter

Photographic Technology

Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens and shutter. RR lens F:4 1/2", f8-45. T/B/I everset shutter with pneumatic release valve

Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear lens and shutter

Photographic Technology

Beck Steinheil Unofocal Patent lens series I, No 4. F:6", f/6-64, No 13299. Bausch and Lomb Unicum shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/t.

Beck Steinheil Unofocal lens in Unicum shutter

Photographic Technology

Tessar lens and compound shutter, made by Carl Zeiss Jena . Tessar Lens F: 15cm, f/4.5-50 353421 in compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B/T. Four blades - cocking lever - cable release - mounted on lens panel, 6 1/4 x 3 3/4" with box and filter slot for 2 1/4" glasses

Tessar lens and compound shutter

Photographic Technology

10 bladed diaphragm shutter with aperture setting calibration 8-64. 1/ 3/4 /2/4/10/25/75/150. 35mn aperture with screw flange. No 771. C.P. Goerz.

goerz diaphragm shutter

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

Shutter for Kinemacolor projector on table type stand. (Safety shutter operated by centrifugal mechanism. Two sector shutter behind lens), Made by The Natural Kinematograph Co. Ltd., London

Shutter For Kinemacolor Projector

Cinematography

1910

Lens/shutter From Wizzard Sr Camera. B & L Unicum type shutter. RR type lens US4.

Lens/shutter From Wizzard Sr Camera

Photographic Technology

Patent roller blind shutter for lens - B opening. Pneumatic operation with no ball or tube. No. M 81766. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton Pickard studio shutter

Photographic Technology

Isostigmar lens and Celverex shutter, made by R & J Beck Limited. Isostigmar, F: 4.75", f/5.8 - 32 No. 15108. Ceverex rotary shutter 10/20/40/80/B/T pneumatic release valve. 10286. (M1688)

Isostigmar lens and Celverex shutter

Photographic Technology

Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens F: 9 inches f/8-45. Eastman Kodak B & L automatic shutter 1/2/5/25/100/B/T. Pneumatic release valve.

Bausch and Lomb Rapid Rectilinear Lens in Kodak Automatic Shutter

Photographic Technology

Wollensack sky-shade shutter, made by the Wollensak Optical Company, Rochester, New York. One shutter blade, speeds: 1/2/5/25/50/100/B/T. Pneumatic release. Spring clip attachment for 1 1/2" lens barrels for use in front of camera lens giving reduced exposure to the top of the photograph. Patented May 1, 1905, in case with instructions.

Wollensack sky-shade shutter

Photographic Technology

Roller blind shutter of brief time only. Pneumatically operated. For a lens mount of 52mm. No. X51711. Thornton Pickard.

Thonrton-Pickard studio shutter

Photographic Technology

VS 18 Bausch and Lomb Automat shutter with Beck double Aplanat lens. 2-blade shutter 1/2/ 5/25/50/100/B/T. pneumatic and mechanical releases. f7.7 double aplanat lens Convertible - 6 1/2" combined, 9 1/2" rear, 12 1/2" front. Aperture scales for three combinations.

Bausch and Lomb automat shutter with Beck double Aplanat lens

Photographic Technology

Beck Neostigmar lens in Ilex shutter. F:41/2 inches, f.6-32. No. 199951. Ilex shutter 1/2/5/25/50/100/200/300/B/T. Cocking leaver missing, repaired. Cable release socket.

Beck Neostigmar lens in Ilex shutter

Photographic Technology

Luc studio shutter, 90mm diameter. ^ bladed suitable for lens mounts 90-110mm with five fixing screws. Open, instantaneous and time settings. Cable release socket, No. 52520.

Luc studio shutter

Photographic Technology

Lens plate from Lackner Co. Inc. camera gun. Conical shutter with simple claw movement.

Shutter and claw unit from AN-N6 camera gun

Photographic Technology

Before lens shutter for 50mm lens barrel, sliding shutter tensioned by elastic band. Tylar, 1894.

rebound shutter

Photographic Technology

1894

Brass between lens shutter, scissor operated blades. Six position adjustable tension spring. Pneumatic release valve. C. Porsche, c.1886.

Prosch's duplex shutter

Photographic Technology

1891-1901

f/7.7, No 18620. With cable release, on lens panel.

Aldis Anastigmat No 7 lens on Thornton-Pickard Time-Inst shutter

Photographic Technology

Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter 15/30/45/60/75/T. String cocked for 70mm lens mount - clmnaping screw. Long cable release. Thornton Pickard

Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter

Photographic Technology

Large rollerblind shutter for 4 1/2 inches diameter lens mount. 10/20/30/40/50/T on 9 inch square wooden panel with flange for T-H lens. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton Pickard time and inst. Shutter

Photographic Technology