A miniature folding plate camers
ICA (Internationale Camera Ag)
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1913
Materials
Metal, Leather
Measurements
115 x 65 x 130 mm
Place of origin
Dresden
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524522
Summary
Atom miniature camera of folding construction. Made by ICA/Eugen Pogade. These cameras were orinally made by R Huttig but continued under the ICA label after some mergers. Label on rear shows 'Eugen Pogade, Allestes und grosstes,Solzenhaus, Berlin-Mitte, Alexander1107, Eingang, Landsbergerstr'. It is a self erecting plate camera with a 90mm Helios f8 lens no 134734. Metal construction covered in black leather. The shutter is labelled 'ICA Atom' and the lens 'Compound RR. D.R.G.M.'
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
ICA (Internationale Camera Ag) , manufacturer