A Redding's Patent Luzo detective box camera, manufactured by J. Robinson & Sons
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1890 - 1896
Materials
Mahogany, Brass, Glass
Measurements
100 x 140 x 100 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524821.1
Summary
A Redding's Patent Luzo detective box camera, manufactured by J. Robinson & Sons. The camera body is mahogany, with brass straps and hooks, and built in two sections which slide apart to open. The earliest design of British rollfilm camera, there is a brass rod-style knob to advance the film and a film punch to mark the frames. It has a fixed-focus, fixed-aperture lens, a rubber band powered rotating sector shutter (rubber band missing), and a round finder with mirror. Markings; Makers plate on camera top, "The 'Luzo' J Robinson & Sons Manufacturers 172 Regent St London W." Stamped on camera top "H.J. Redding's No 17328 Patent" and serial no. "N. 345"
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