12" lens.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
1850 - 1930
Materials
Glass, Brass
Measurements
22 mm (Height); 58 mm (Diameter)
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525167.3
Summary
12" lens. This comprises one convex lens set into a brass collar. The brass collar has a plain barrel with the size "12in" engraved into it. There is a knurled ring to facilitate screwing and unscrewing. There is a male screw thread at the lens end to screw into the camera body or into another lens to allow stacking. There is a female screw thread at the open end to take a fliter ring or to allow stacking of another lens. No BFI number.
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