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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Folding Camera for Whole Plates

Studio Stand Camera

Large Half Plate Stand Camera

Collapsible Folding Bellows Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1910

Pullman Camera

The 1889 Instantograph Camera

1889

Kodak Studio Stand Camera

McKellen Folding Hand or Stand Camera

circa 1890

Thornton-Pickard Royal Ruby Camera

circa 1920

EMPRESS Whole Plate Stand Camera

Daguerreotype portrait camera

1857-1860

Gandolfi 'Universal' Camera

'Artist' Twin Lens Plate Camera

1889

Thornton Pickard folding bellows field or stand camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Sands, Hunter & Co Stand Camera

Watson & Sons Folding Bellows Tailboard Field and Stand Camera, c 1890

1885-1895

Exhibition Camera by Sands and Hunter

Sanger-Shepherd Camera

Hand and Stand Camera and One Darkslide.

1895
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
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
Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates. No makers name (but probably French or German). Folding plate camera in walnut with nickel fittings. No lens or panel. Sliding rising and cross front. Front fixed, back adjustable in three positions with peg and keyslot fittings. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension bellows. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding element. With one bookform wooden double darkslide.

Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates

1900
No. 5 Cartridge Kodak camera, 1898-1900, manufactured by EKCo. Folding camera for 115 rollfilm. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens US4-128. Eastman triple action shutter B/I/T, slow to fast adjustment. Rack and pinion focusing, sliding rising and cross front. Two reflecting finders. With interchangeable plate back No.533 adaptor. Blockform double darkslide and a standard back No.1288. Eastman Kodak. Overall (deployed): 220 mm x 260 mm x 295 mm.

No 5 Cartridge Kodak camera

1898-1900
Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an Aldis anastigmat lens No.2a F;6.5 inches, f/6.3-45, No106595. With a Thornton pickard Time and inst. Roller blind shutter behind the lens. 15/30/45/75/90/T. Sliding and rising front. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Vertical swing back. Lens panel is located by pin and keyhole slot. Reversible back with ground glass focusing screen in hinged frame. Built in tripod turntable.

Quarter-Plate Stand Camera

1910
No 5 folding Kodak camera, 1893-1897, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 54 exposure roll film 5 x 7 inch. Bausch & Lomb universal lens. US 4-256, Bausch & Lomb iris diaphragm shutter 3/2/1/2/5/25/50/100. Sliding rising and cross front, rack and pinion focusing, drop front to baseboard, swing back vertical and horizontal movement, reflecting viewfinder, compartment in case for interchangeable elements (missing). Walker roll holder. No 9498. Overall (deployed): 240 mm x 256 mm x 390 mm. This is an early folding camera designed for use with rollfilm. Externally, it resembles a leather-covered box. The front panel opens down to reveal the lens panel - connected by bellows to a modified Eastman- Walker rollholder.

No 5 folding Kodak camera

1893-1897
No. 6 Folding Kodak camera, improved model, 1893-5. Folding box/bellows camera for rollfilm or plates 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch. Fitted with a Bausch & Lomb Universal lens F:12 inches. US 4-256 interchangeable elements for W/A lens F:9 inches US 16 - 128. Bausch & Lomb iris diaphragm shutter 3/2/1/2/5/25/50/100/T. With pneumatic release valve. Lens and shutter have bayonet fitting. Sliding and rising cross front, drop-front and swing back. Lever focusing - two positions for converted lens. Rotating reflecting finder. Compartment under lid contains a spare lens elements, tripod screw and roll holder screw. Walker roll holder No.532. Overall (deployed): 290 mm x 300 mm x 470 mm.

No.6 folding Kodak, improved model

1893-1895
No 5 Folding Kodet camera, 1895-1897, manufactured by Eastman Kodak Co. Folding camera for 5 x 7 plates or roll film. Fitted with an achromatic lens, rotating disc with four apertures, built in Kodet shutter, adjustable slow to fast I/T. Sliding focus, sliding rising and cross front, rotating reflecting finder on the baseboard with Eastman roll holder for 7 inch rollfilm, with exposure counter No 534. With ground glass screen, camera no 592. Overall (deployed): 190 mm x 230 mm x 344 mm.

Kodak No 5 Folding Kodet camera

1895-1897
Stand camera for 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inch plates. no lens. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing. Vertical swing back. Ground glass focusing screen in reversible back. Tripod turntable built in. Sold by Spiers and Pond's Stores, Queen Victoria Street.

Whole Plate Stand Camera

Stand camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. Front panel fixed, rear panel moves by rack and pinion. Hinged base board locked by sliding section. Thornton Pickard Time shutter, sliding rising and cross front.. Swing back both movements, ground glass screen in spring back, rotatable. Nickel plated finish on metal parts.

Stand Plate camera

1900
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens F: 8 1/2 inches, f8-64, Thornton Pickard T & I shutter behind lens, 15/30/45/75/90/T front locates by key slots, locked with struts, sliding rising front, swing back, rack and pinion focusing, on rear panel, double extension, hinged out ground glass screen with tapering bellows.

Half Plate Stand Camera

A collection of items relating to Gandolfi Ltd., hand-made camera manufacturers, 1939: Gandolfi `Precision' 5x7" camera, owned by Sir Kenneth Corfield

Gandolfi `Precision' Camera

1939
Folding wooden camera for 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inch halfplates. No lens present. Sliding rising front. Double extension bellows, rack and pinion focusing, tripod turntable built into base. Swing back and ground glass screen holder with removable back.

Folding Wooden Stand Camera

1890
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
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Beck Symmetrical lens f/8-45, interchangeable with pair of Achromat lenses f/11-44 both on front panel for roller blind shutter ? Thornton Pichard 15/30/45/76/90/T, with wire release. Sliding rising front, swing front. Rack and pinion focusing, triple extension on back and front panels. Swing back. Focusing screen is missing. Reversible back. With removable spring roller septum for stereo. With built in tripod turntable with separate legs. Sold by Westminster Photographic Exchange. With two Two wooden bookform double darkslides.

Half Plate Stand Camera

Stereoscopic stand camera for 6 1/4 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with two Grubb patent achromatic lenses Nos. 529,530. F: 6 inches with disc stops. Coarse helical thread focusing movement, marked 0-11. ON non original lens panel with inter lens separation by screw marked 2 3/4 - 3 1/3. Focal plane rollerblind shutter (fabric missing). Spirit level. Swing down ground glass screen.

Stereoscopic Stand Camera

1885
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates. No makers name but ? Middlemiss. Mahogany and brass folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates. No lens or panel. Front panel located by stud and keyslot, two positions. Rack and pinion focusing double extension . Sliding rising front , swing back. No.3383. With Eastman roll-holder (Pat. May 5th 1885), No. 7520 and two double darkslides. Tripod base (no legs), in canvas and board case.

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" plates

Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a C.P. Goerz Dogmar lens F:15cm f/4.5-36 No. 515048. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/150/B/T. Swing front, rising front - sliding, considerable movement. Swing back. Rack and pinion focusing on front and rear panels with long extension. Reversible back with swing out ground glass. Built in large diameter tripod head.

Half-plate Stand camera

Teak folding quarter plate stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/3 inch plates with nickel plated fittings. No lens. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Lens standards fixed by two keyslots and screw fittings. Two spirit levels, hinged ground glass focusing screen. Continental tripod bushes.

Quarterplate Stand Camera

1910
Sliding body camera for 4 x 5 inch plates. Vertical format. With ground glass screen. No plate holders. The lens is missing. A sliding-box camera for 4" by 5" plates, fitted with a Cox Petzval-type 6" lens No 5352, with rack and pinion focussing and a slot for Waterhouse stops.

Sliding Body Box Camera

1860
The Junior Sanderson folding hand camera and a darkslide, manufactured by George Houghton and Son, London, 1910

The Junior Sanderson folding hand camera and a darkslide

1910
The Triple Diamond folding bellows field or stand camera for plates 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With triple extension, rising and tilting front, reversing and swing back movement. Lens panel hinged to baseboard. Fitted with a rapid rectilinear lens F.8 8 f.1. mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter. Of mahogany with brass fittings and tapered leather bellows.

Triple Diamond Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera

The Sanderson folding bellows field or stand camera for plates 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 and one darkslide. With double extension, tapered leather bellows, double swing and reversing back. Focusing by two rack and pinion mechanisms. Fitted with a Beck Steinheil 'Unofocal' patent Series 1 F.6.6 7.2" f.1 mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller-blind shutter. Polished teak with brass fittings. Houghton Ltd, c.1904.

Sanderson Folding Bellows Field or Stand Camera and Darkslide.

1899-1909
Folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates.Fitted with a Beck symmetrical lens f/8-11. Studio diaphragm shutter, Sliding rising front. Bertical swing on back and front. Rack and pinion focusing on back and front. REversible back. Built in tripod turntable. Thrornton-Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Extension Camera

The Una camera. Folding hand or stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens no 255667 (pat. 11108/'04). Goerx pantar combination lens F: 11 3/4, 9 1/2 inches. Goerz diaphragm shutter calibrated with 6f/ scale 14 inches lens 12.5-64; 11 3/4 - 12.5-64, 12.5-64; 11 + 14 3/4 6.8-45; 14+ 9 1/2 7.2-45 shutter speeds 2/3/5/10/20/75/100/150/T. Rack and pinion rising front with sliding extension. Swing front, revolving back. Rack and pinion focusing with long extension. Baseboard calibrated in two scales from 5 to 15 1/2 inches in 1/2 inch steps. Ground glass focusing screen in detachable back. Manufactured by James A Sinclair & Co Ltd., 54 Haymarket, London SW.

The Una Camera

Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera for negatives 3 1/4 x 4 /14. With double extension, tapered bellows, swing and reversing back, rising and tilting front. Rack and pinion focusing. Supported by two brass struts. Fitted with an Aldis Anastigmat F.7.7 7 1/2" f.1 lens mounted in a Thornton Pickard roller blind shutter. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Rubber air pressure release. c1910.

Thornton Pickard 'College' folding bellows hand or stand camera, c 1910

1905-1915
The Sanderson Regular camera. Folding stand and hand camera for 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch plates. Zeiss Tessar F: 13.5cm f/6.3-25 NO. 672986. Inso shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/125/B/T/ Rack and pinion and sliding rising front. Swing front, drop front. Top of body opens to permit extra rise on wide angle lens. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Rack and pinion on lens panel slide in camera body. Reversible back. Ground glass screen masked to 1/4 plate. No. 25262. Houghtons Limited.

The Sanderson Regular Camera

Gandolfi square bellows tailboard camera, whole plate size; Taylor Hobson Cooke Anastigmat Series V lens, f/8 11 inch lens, Serial No 111408; also with six double dark slides, twelve lens panels and one roller blind shutter, f4 Ross Xpres wide angle lens Serial No 216669; Ross Homocentric f6.3 lens, No. 213388; f/5.5 Tele Ross lens No. 197885, c. 1930.

Gandolfi Square Bellows Tailboard Camera

1930
Lancaster 1901 B B Instantograph camera, folding stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fitted with a Lancaster Patent landscape achromatic lens, iris diaphragm marked 1-8 f/10-30. Sliding rising front, rack and pinion focusing with double extension. Swing back, both movements. Lancaster patent swing out ground glass focusing screen. Manufactured by J Lancaster and Son, Birmingham. 1901. This was a special 'tropical' version of the Instantograph - the letters BB stand for Brass Bound.

Lancaster B B Instantograph camera

1901
Stand camera for 4 3/4 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Lens and lens panel missing. Fixed front. Ornate strenthening plates. Rafck and pinion focusing on rear panel. Double extension. Tailboard construction. Sliding rising front swing back. Reversible back. Square bellows. Figured wood perhaps maple. Marsden.

Marsden Stand Camera