A Lens for the Chapman camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890
Materials
Brass, Glass
Measurements
60 x 60 x 50 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524719.2
Summary
A Lens for the Chapman camera. It is mounted in brass and has its own focussing system. It has no aperture control and is marked 'Durlot Paris'. There is a brass lens cap.
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