Trona 110 folding plate camera
ICA (Internationale Camera Ag)
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1911 - 1926
Materials
Aluminium, Leather, Glass
Measurements
Open 130 x 84 x 153 mm
Place of origin
Dresden
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524581
Summary
A Trona 110 folding plate camera. 3 1/4" x 4 1/4" pictures on film packs or glass plates. Rising and falling front operated by a screw adjustment. Rotating brilliant finder. Hekla double anastigmat F6.8 lens, 9cm focal length 'No.484722' on lens. Two tripod sockets. Aluminium body covered with black leather, black leather handle. Double extension black leather bellows with front rise movement Aperture range f6.8 to 36 Shutter - compound type capable of speed from one to 1/250 of a second, plus Z, B & M On shutter 'ICA Dresden, DRP No. 258646 DRGM, COMPUR' Embossed on handle 'Trona 110'
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 F. Deckel , manufacturer