Eyelid studio camera shutter with pneumatic release.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Leather, Textile, Rubber
Measurements
178 x 160 x 93 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524710
Summary
Eyelid studio camera shutter with pneumatic release. Black metal ring with black leather bellows in two pleated parts with felted textile edges. Black metal air chamber and tube attachment for rubber tube and bulb (rubber parts missing).
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