A Kodak Star Premo folding plate camera.
Eastman Kodak Co
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1903 - 1908
Materials
Metal, Leather, Wood, Glass
Measurements
Closed size 140 x 135 x 60 mm
Place of origin
Rochester
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524791.1
Summary
A Kodak Star Premo folding plate camera for 3¼" x 4¼" plates or filmpacks. Metal body covered in black leather with black leather handle. Ground glass focusing screen. Dark maroon leather bellows. Planatograph US4 lens by Bausch & Lomb. Brilliant finder on top of standard. Tripod bush on baseboard. Markings: engraved on metal plate at base of standard: "Star Premo" and "The Premo" Retailers' plate on side: "The Westminster Photographic Exchange Ltd, 111 Oxford St. London W"
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
Eastman Kodak Co , manufacturer