Rover Detective Camera
- Materials:
- leather , metal (unknown) , wood (unidentified) , glass and bone
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/1192/1
- type:
- detective camera , box camera and magazine camera
Rover Detective camera
- PART OF:
- The Kodak Museum Collection
- Made:
- 1893 in Birmingham
- maker:
- J Lancaster and Son
Magazine box camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Fitted with an achromatic lens, fixed aperture and focus, Lancaster seesaw shutter reflecting viewfinder, plates in frame holders (12), carried horizontally in upper compartment, transferred to focal plane by tilting base to compartment, after exposure moved to back of camera behind flexible wooden shutter. Lancaster, 1893.
Details
- Category:
- Photographic Technology
- Collection:
- Kodak Collection
- Object Number:
- 1990-5036/1192
- type:
- detective camera and magazine camera
- credit:
- The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford
