Collection of cameras

Made:
1880-1950 in Manchester
creator:
J T Chapman Limited
Bellows plate camera.
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Collection of cameras, lenses, plates, daguerreotypes and photographic prints given by J. T. Chapman Ltd

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Object Number:
Y1966.28
Measurements:
190 mm x 230 mm x 230 mm,
type:
collection of objects and archives
credit:
Donated by J. T. Chapman Ltd

Parts

Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic Camera

Wood framed folding stereoscopic camera by J.T. Chapman, c.1880. This camera was popular for amateur use. It was constructed on the principles of Brewster and Dancer. The use of the 3" focus 'Platystigmat' wide angle lenses made the camera less bulky and could also aid the construction of a camera at a cheap price. With extra lens panel and lens it could be used as a half-plate camera.

Model B Cine Camera

Model B Cine Camera

16mm model B cine camera by Eastman Kodak Co. Metal body with Morocco leather covering (black). Hand wound with one Kodak lens.

Stamped metal label on top of case: "Made in U.S.A. at Rochester by Eastman Kodak Co. Cine Kodak Model B. K.A., f3. 5 Footage". Stamped metal label on front near lens: "Use portrait attachment for close ups. From 2 to 5 feet.". Stamped metal label on front below lens: Explains which settings to use in different light conditions. Stamped on film spool: "Kodak Made in England"

Measurements:
overall: 140 mm x 222 mm x 93 mm,
Materials:
leather , metal (unknown) , glass and plastic (unidentified)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.3
type:
cine camera
"Scott's Patent" Plate Camera

"Scott's Patent" Plate Camera

The Manchester/Scott's patent plate camera, c.1890. Mahogany camera with brass fittings. Rise and cross panel Wray 'Platystigmat' wide angle 4" focus with disc stops rack focus. Various reinforcing details suggests Billcliffe manufacture. With one D/D slide side struts slotted according to the Chapman/Scott patent to provide swing back.

Label on side of camera: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester". Label on front of camera below lens mount: "Scott's patent, No. 12389"

Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , glass and wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.6
type:
camera
"The Artists" Plate Camera

"The Artists" Plate Camera

The 'Artists' bellows plate camera made by J.L. Lane of London in around 1880. Sold by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester. Walnut wood camera, square bellows rise and cross front. (Lane type) swing back. (lane type) folding side member. Rack focus, single extension. Dallmeyer 5" (13 cm) anastigmat. Disc stops pneumatic drop shutter. This is a small hand/stand camera made to the same specification as the...

Measurements:
overall: 135 mm x 188 mm x 158 mm,
Materials:
walnut (wood) , brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.13
type:
camera
"The British" Half-Plate Camera

"The British" Half-Plate Camera

Half plate camera by Billcliff, c.1899. Mahogany folding field camera double extension. Rising front Billcliffe type swing back and swing front. Wray 81/2 anastigmat. Iris diaphragm. With T/P shutter and one D/D slide. Good low price field camera of the late 19th early 20th century. Used by architectural workers and small studios as a portrait camera. Apart from the low price (£6) is was a very s...

Ivory label on right side of camera body: "The 'British' J.T. Chapman Photographic chemist Manchester"

Zeiss Ikon Foldable Plate Camera

Zeiss Ikon Foldable Plate Camera

ICA 'Ideal' 250/7 drop-front bellows plate camera, made by Zeiss Ikon, 1929. Folding, all metal and leather camera with rise and cross front double extension. Mirror and frame view finders. Single metal dark slides. Lens panels to take various lenses with special Zeiss fitting. No lens. This camera shows the beginning of design in aluminum with made for smaller dimensions and greater mechanical ac...

Measurements:
45 mm x 122 mm x 160 mm,
Materials:
leather , metal (unknown) , glass and cardboard
Object Number:
Y1966.28.17
type:
camera
No. 3A Autographic Folding Camera

No. 3A Autographic Folding Camera

No 3A Autographic folding camera , Eastman Kodak c. 1925. Fitted with a Taylor Hobson 12" f6.3 Anastigmat in Compur shutter. Autographic model giving a postcard size on 122 size film. Metal body, leather covered.

Materials:
metal (unknown) , leather , glass and cardboard
Object Number:
Y1966.28.21
type:
camera
drop-front bellows plate camera

drop-front bellows plate camera

Hand or stand camera with brass fittings made to Billcliffe method of swing back. Wray 3" Platystigmat lens, one dark slide. Mahogany wood. The smallest size of hand/stand camera made by Billcliffe. considered by him to be a 'Miniature'.

Materials:
mahogany (wood) and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.24
type:
plate camera
'Merlin' Miniature Camera

'Merlin' Miniature Camera

'Merlin' sub-miniature metal camera, made by United Optical Instruments.

Measurements:
overall: 41 mm x 45 mm x 53 mm,
Materials:
metal (unknown) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.27
type:
camera
Prototype stereoscopic camera

Prototype stereoscopic camera

Prototype stereoscopic camera, designed and made by John Benjamin Dancer, Manchester, c.1852.

Measurements:
overall: 136 mm x 204 mm x 148 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.28
type:
stereoscopic camera
Billcliff "Royalty" Plate Camera

Billcliff "Royalty" Plate Camera

'Royalty' bellows plate camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester.

Inscription engraved on brass pointer at side: "Royalty". Inscription carved inside camera back (at base of plate holder): "1 C". Inscription handwritten on reverse of camera back: "Chapman". Inscription engraved on two lenses: "Ross, London, 12818, 12819". Stamped label on top of camera body: "J.T. Chapman, Photographic Chemist, Albert Square, Manchester"

Measurements:
overall: 240 mm x 282 mm x 265 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , metal (unknown) , leather and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.37
type:
stereoscopic camera
Chapman 'British' camera made

Chapman 'British' camera made

Chapman 'British' camera made by Joshua Billcliff of Manchester in around 1890.

Measurements:
Overall: 197 mm x 230 mm x 60 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.38
type:
bellows plate camera
Ensign E20 Roll-Film Box Camera

Ensign E20 Roll-Film Box Camera

An Ensign E20 box roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited

Measurements:
overall: 112 mm x 126 mm x 80 mm,
Materials:
leather , cardboard , metal (unknown) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.44
type:
camera
Ensign "Klito" Magazine Camera

Ensign "Klito" Magazine Camera

An Ensign-brand "Klito" No. 0 magazine camera, with 12 plate holders, made by Houghtons Limited.

Measurements:
overall: 103 mm x 188 mm x 220 mm,
Materials:
leather , metal (unknown) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.45
type:
camera
box roll-film camera

box roll-film camera

No 4 'Regular' box roll film camera made by Eastman Kodak Ltd, Rochester, USA in around 1895.

Measurements:
Overall: 170 mm x 130 mm x 325 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.46
type:
box roll-film camera
The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd

The 'British' Miller's patent magazine camera made by J.T. Chapman Ltd, Manchester in around 1904. Fitted with a Wray R/R lens and T/P shutter, speeded 1/15th to 1/90th sec 1/4 plate negatives. With large detachable view finder, lever focusing. Flap front. These models have the focusing lever for left hand working, behind the large view finder. late model of the Miller patent magazine camera. The ...

Measurements:
Overall: 168 mm x 130 mm x 222 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.49
type:
magazine camera
Ensign Folding Roll-Film Camera

Ensign Folding Roll-Film Camera

Ensign folding roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Coompany Limited.

Materials:
metal (unknown) , leather and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.58
type:
camera
Super Nettel folding 35mm camera

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera

Super Nettel folding 35mm camera, made by Zeiss-Ikon AG, Dresden, Germany, c. 1935.

Measurements:
Overall: 80 mm x 132 mm x 35 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.61
type:
35-mm camera
Ensign Carbine No 4a camera

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera

Ensign Carbine No 4a camera, made by W. Butcher & Sons Ltd Ltd, London, c. 1925. From accession form: Metal leather roll film camera for 1/4 plate size. Dallmeyer Carfac lens f6.5 15cm focus. Lukos shutter (Ibsor type) Rise & cross front. Double extension rack focussing.

Measurements:
Overall: 215 mm x 107 mm x 43 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.66
type:
bellows roll-film camera
Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic Camera

Stereoscopic folding camera, sold by Joseph J. Pyne of Manchester. From accession form: Mahogany stereo camera (folding with brass lens flanges and swinging shutter. Marked on the top with J J Pyne Piccadilly and at base. J T Chapham Deansgate. Two fixed focus landscape lenses. The camera closed has a base board that fits under a shelf in the box, over this shelf is the space for the dark slides. ...

Measurements:
overall: 145 mm x 138 mm x 200 mm,
Materials:
wood (unidentified) , glass and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.70
type:
stereoscopic camera
Camera lens

Camera lens

Camera lens made by W.I. Chadwick of Manchester in around 1880.

Object Number:
Y1966.28.71
type:
camera lens
From accession form: Brass combination lens. A front lens

From accession form: Brass combination lens. A front lens

From accession form: Brass combination lens. A front lens, a case with two supplementary lenses, a rear barrel with rack focusing and a rear lens. The supplementary in a small case. All brass mounted. This lens is a large portrait lens of the Petzval type. The front lens can be used as a single landscape lens of long focus. With the rear lens added to the set becomes a portrait lens. With the addi...

Object Number:
Y1966.28.72
type:
camera lens
Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York

Wide-angle bronze mounted Globe camera lens made by C.C. Harrison and J. Schnitzer of New York in around 1862. From accession form: An early for of wide angle lens. With less covering power than the Sutton panoramic water lens if is better corrected for astigmatism and chromatic aberations, though it suffers from distortion on the edges of the field. An advanced form of this construction with spec...

Measurements:
Overall: 95 mm, 106 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.73
type:
camera lens
C P Goerz wide-angle lens

C P Goerz wide-angle lens

'Hypergon' wide-angle camera lens made by C.P. Goerz, Berlin, Germany in around 1915. From accession form: An extreme wide angle lens, (130 degree) with little distortion. To balance the exposure at the edges of the picture the fan is used for part of the time of the exposure and then the fan is moved from the Centre of the lens by the release cord. According to the catalogue this lens with a foca...

Measurements:
Overall: 45 mm 100 mm,
Object Number:
Y1966.28.74
type:
lens
Flip-Flap Shutter

Flip-Flap Shutter

Metal snapshot or flip-flap shutter.

Measurements:
overall: 34 mm x 37 mm x 58 mm,
Materials:
metal (unknown)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.79
type:
shutter
Aperture Control Stops

Aperture Control Stops

Set of six Waterhouse stops in case by W. Hume. From accession form: A form of aperture control that gives very accurate sizes. The metal plates fitted into a gap in the lens.

Measurements:
overall: 14 mm x 65 mm x 90 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and leather
Object Number:
Y1966.28.81
type:
camera component
Camera Mounting Plates

Camera Mounting Plates

Four wood and brass lens mounting plates. As mounted this served as a lens panel to accommodate lenses of different diameters. It could be used as a variable aperture used before the lens. Useful piece of studio apparatus to permit the use of different lenses and also to control aperture.

Symmetrical Doublet Lens

Symmetrical Doublet Lens

Symmetrical doublet lens by E. Suter. Brass lens symmetrical construction of two achromatic lenses using old type glasses. 12" focus f11. Late type R/R for architectural work.

Measurements:
overall: 72 mm 75 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.89
type:
photographic lens
Achromatic Landscape Lens

Achromatic Landscape Lens

Achromatic landscape camera lens made by Lerebours & Secretan. Typical landscape lens of this period by maker of long standing reputation in France.

Measurements:
overall: 85 mm 71 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.92
type:
photographic lens
Brass Landscape Lens

Brass Landscape Lens

Camera lens made by Lerebours and Secretan of Paris in around 1870. Brass landscape lens with disc aperture at front and lever exposure rack focus 6" approx. Apertures f.11 to 32. Interesting because of the position of the aperture control and the lever shutter.

Measurements:
overall: 50 mm x 55 mm x 63 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.101
type:
photographic lens
Stereoscopic Lenses

Stereoscopic Lenses

Two stereoscopic lenses by Wray. Pair of matched stereoscopic lenses in case for use with Waterhouse stops. Focal length 5" largest aperture f.12. As stereoscopic lenses had to be accurately matched they were sold in cases like this. Normally they were paired landscape type lenses.

Engraved on lens barrel of first lens: "Wray, London, 5in Stereo : No. 6187". Stamped on disc stops of first lens: non-linear apertures, 5 settings, f11-f45. Engraved on lens barrel of second lens: "Wray London 5in stereo No. 6186". Painted on wheel stop of second lens: aperture numbers

Materials:
glass and brass (copper, zinc alloy)
Object Number:
Y1966.28.102
type:
photographic lens
Laverne Rectilinear Lens

Laverne Rectilinear Lens

Brass mounted rapid rectilinear lens made by Laverne & Co., for 1/4 plate size; these lenses were made specifically for J.T. Chapman Ltd.

Measurements:
overall: 19 mm 52 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.103
type:
photographic lens
Wray Wide-Angle Rectilinear Lens

Wray Wide-Angle Rectilinear Lens

Brass-mounted wide-angled rectilinear lens made by Wray, 6 1/2" focus. Aperture f.11; listed in the 1889 Wray catalogue as the fastest landscape-type lens.

Measurements:
overall: 29 mm x 46 mm x 41 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.104
type:
photographic lens
Goerz Camera Shutter

Goerz Camera Shutter

Camera shutter made by Goerz c.1900. Aluminum framed shutter with pneumatic release. Fitted with Steinhill anastigmatic lens 4 1/2" focus f. 6.8. This type of shutter with iris diaphragm and pneumatic release became the standard mounting in the early 20th century. The shutters were made to take the ranges of lenses made by the various manufacturers and were normally folded to the folding cameras....

Stamped on front shutter mounting; "C.P. Goerz Berlin D.R.P." Stamped on front lens surround: "Beck-Steinheil convertible orthostigmat patent No. 12949 series II No. Focus 4 1/2""

Measurements:
overall: 31 mm x 75 mm x 88 mm,
Materials:
brass (copper, zinc alloy) , steel (metal) and glass
Object Number:
Y1966.28.106
type:
shutter