A Kershaw Penguin Eight-20 folding rollfilm camera
Kershaw-Soho Ltd
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1946
Materials
Metal, Glass, Leather, Bakelite
Measurements
Open 168 x 88 x 126 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524497
Summary
A Kershaw Penguin Eight-20 folding rollfilm camera for 6 x 9cm exposures on 120 film. Rotating brilliant finder. Metal camera with black crackle-finish enamel with chrome coloured details, black bellows and black leather handle. Black bakelite film winding knob. Red exposure finding window on back. Focusing Doublet f11 lens. I, B & T shutter speed. Distance settings 6ft to Infinity. Markings: To left and right of lens in black 'Made in England. Patent app. for Kershaw Soho (Sales) Limited' Below lens in white 'Kershaw Eight-20 PENGUIN' On top of lens on a metal plate 'I B T' On top of shutter on a metal plate '6ft, 10 ft, INF' Beneath and behind shutter on a metal plate 'Set pointer here before closing camera' White lablel affixed to bottom of hinged cover plate, hand written in black 'C/556'
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Kershaw-Soho Ltd, manufacturer