Nora folding plate camera
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1901 - 1910
Materials
Wood, Leather, Metal, Glass, Plastic
Measurements
Closed size 135 x 155 x 65 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524785.1
Summary
Nora folding plate camera. Wooden body covered in black leather, with black leather handle and maroon leather bellows. Ground glass focusing screen. Brilliant finder. "Junior" Shutter by Wollensak Optical Co, Rochester, New York. Two-blade pivoted return, spring powered. I, B, T settings. Tripod bushes on side and base. Markings: Decorative metal plate screwed onto baseboard bears model name: "Nora".
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.