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Small Studio Camera for Postcards

Gandolfi Extending Bellows Camera

1930

Studio camera

circa 1880

De Vere Whole Plate Monorail Camera with Spring Back

De Vere half plate monorail camera

Studio Camera

Middlemiss Anglo Studio Camera

1883-1906

Whole-plate studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Cooke Portrait lens fitted Taylor, Taylor and Hobson barrel, Series II, F:14 1/2" f/4.5 No 97948; hemispherical bellows shutter behind lens. Sharp-soft focus lens adjustment. Rack rising front; rack focusing on front and back; screw adjustment of front extension bed. Vertical swing back, rack adjusted horizonatal swing back. Fitted with Kodak pattern spring back (not original) for 1/1 plates, with spare Kodak pattern spring back for 1/2 plates.

Whole-plate studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Cooke Portrait lens fitted Taylor

Studio camera and stand.

Studio camera and stand

circa 1880

Archer studio camera. Studio camera for 10x12" plates; provision for repeating back, 1/2 plate mask. Lens missing; rack focusing on rear panel; vertical and horizontal swing back; rising front. Overall: 438 mm x 508 mm x 717 mm.

Archer studio camera, c 1860

1845-1865

The 'Princess' enlarger. By Houghtons Ltd.

The Princess Enlarger

12 x 10" plate camera. Manufactured by London Stereoscopic Co., 106-108 Regent Street, London W. Folding mahogany camera for 12 x 10 plates 5 1/4 inch square aperture for lens panel (no lens). Sliding, rising front, rack and pinion focusing, double extensions. Swing out focusing screen on removable back, spare 10 x 12 inch back with hinged focusing screen (glass missing).

Plate Camera

Kodak No 2 Specialist studio camera, manufactured by Kodak Ltd. 10" x 8" plate camera on Century No 2 stand. As used by photographer Cornel Lucas. With spare dark slide. Fitted with Linhof lens fitting and Schneider-Kreuznach Tele-Xenar lens, 1:5,5/500. Camera back inscribed '20N Central 12"x10" 10"x8" 1/1 Pl 1/2 Pl. Bronze plaque on front of camera inscribed 'CORNEL / LUICAS /1946'.

Cornel Lucas' Kodak Studio Camera No 2

1946

G Hare, 26 Calthorpe Street, London. For 10x12" plates; top loading; no lens; internal 2-blade studio shutter. Screw clamped front, rack focused rear panels. Screw vertical and horizontal swing back; bellows damaged; focusing screen back modified by addition of latter sprung back. On three-legged studio stand with castors; screw and rack elevation, screw tilting.

Late wetplate Hare Studio camera

Watson stand plate camera, made by W. Watson and Sons. Bellows camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" plates. No lens. Sliding rising and cross front. Swing back. Rack and pinion focussing, working back. In lined case by Dallmeyer, with three wooden bookform double darkslides. Tripod head.

Watson stand plate camera

1890

Ansco Studio camera. Studio camera for 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inch plates. Fixed front panel, sliding rear panel. Lever focusing. Screw swing back, both movements. Reversible back in detachable frame. Ansco. No lens. Overall: 510 mm x 350 mm x 720 mm.

Ansco studio plate camera

Two BTS high definition television (HDTV) studio cameras with lenses.

Two BTS High Definition Television (HDTV) Studio Cameras

1990-1991

Large studio wet-plate camera, fitted with a Ross portrait lens, Waterhouse stops, rip focusing, No 2702. Top loading back, two-way swing. Screw focusing on front, rising front. For up to 11x11" plates. On elevating table stand with tilting top made by Smith & Pattison.

Wet-plate Studio Camera and stand

1880-1900

Century studio camera. Whole plate studio camera fitted with half plate back, Ross no. 3 cabinet lens, F:13, No. 50567 with six waterhouse stops in leather case, rack and pinion focusing. Pneumatic bellows, studio shutter behind lens. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, screw swing back, vertical and horizontal, on century studio stand made by Eastman Kodak Co. With screw tilting and rack and pinion elevation with three castors. With wooden lens cap (lined with velvet). Overall (lens cover): 130 mm; overall (with lens): 510 mm x 350 mm x 860 mm.

Century studio camera. Whole plate studio camera fitted with half plate back

1902-1932

'Forward' studio camera manufactured by O Sichel & Co, London, about 1900. Bone manufacturer's plate above lens reads 'The 'Forward' / O Sichel & Co / 62, Bunhill Row... / London'. Fitted to wheeled tripod base (see 1966-334/1).

Sichel 'Forward' Studio Camera

circa 1900

Adams Studio Minex camera, 1937. For 1/1 plates; Goerz Dogmar lens F:300 f/5.5 No 389706. Side reflex focusing via internal mirror; cloth hood missing. Focal plane shutter; rack focusing and vertical swing on front; rising front Kodak type sprung reversible back. Bought for £85 in 1937 by Lord Brabazon of Tara, Kodak Director (died 1964). Overall: 524 mm x 380 mm x 490 mm.

Adams Studio Minex camera

1937