Homemade cardboard box camera.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cardboard, Leather, Metal, Glass, Elastic cord, Cord
Measurements
Camera size 190 x 130 x 180 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524809
Summary
Homemade cardboard box camera. Cardboard body covered in black leatherette. Leather handle across top. Lid at rear secured by elastic cord. Inside rear is space for 3 double dark slides. One cardboard double dark slide is present, also homemade, with one side numbered 3 and the other 4. Rear of camera has a panel which slides up, and a paper dial (arch-shaped) marked with roman numerals from I - VI, with a metal arrow which can be moved to point to the numbers. Very simple flap shutter, operated by pull-cord through hole in the top of the camera. Front of camera has simple lens beneath viewfinder lens. Hole in top of camera to see viewfinder.
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