A Belleini Jumelle Simple camera
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1900 - 1903
Materials
Wood, Metal, Leather, Glass
Measurements
160 x 175 x 205 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1524885.1
Summary
A Bellieni Jumelle Simple camera. The trapezoidal body is wooden and is covered with black leather. The lens and shutter assembly screws into the lens plate which has both rise and shift motions. The assembly bears the number 4037 and a label reading 'H.Bellieni, Constucteur d'Instruments de Précision, A Nancy' The lens has the inscription ' 1:5 F.136mm D.R.P56109 Carl Zeiss Jena No 8191. There are three tripod monunts, one either side and one on the base. A viewfinder is on the top of the camera with the eyepiece on the plate magazine. On top of the camera body is an emblem bearing ' Medallian Grand Prix Paris 1900. At the rear, the magazine holding 9x12 cm plates and may be removed to make way for the focusing screen. It too is mainly wooden, covered in black leather and has a frame counter on top and spirit levels on top and side. Plates are changed by sliding out a drawing mechanism. The magazine holds 12 plates.
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