"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera

Made:
1912-1920 in Glasgow
maker:
J Lizars, J
and
C P Goerz
"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera

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"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera
Science Museum Group Collection
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"Challenge" Tropical Folding Bellows Camera. Teak with brass fittings.Focusing by rack and pinion. Rising front and side movement lens panel. Fitted with a Goerz Berlin double Anastigmat Dagor F.6.8 150mm f.1 lens series 111 mounted in a lever set pneumatic compound shutter with speeds 1sec 1/200sec B. & T. With optical brilliant waist-level viewfinder mouned on baseboard, Lizars, c.1920

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Arthur Frank Collection
Object Number:
1979-559/16
Materials:
teak (wood), leather, leatherette, mahogany (wood), brass (copper, zinc alloy), metal (unknown), nickel plated, phenolic plastic and glass
Measurements:
overall (assembled): 135 x 260 x 190 mm
weight: 11.24kg
weight: 24.78009lbs
type:
rollfilm camera
credit:
The Arthur Frank Collection