seen this camera?

anyone recognize the camera?

 

it looks quite familiar to me,but i cannot remember where i've seen

one of these before...

i don't know what it is but i want one!

I agree, Iulian, it does look familiar. It's obviously a 2x3 inch or 6.5x9 cm (or just possibly larger -- if old enough, might go as large as full plate, though the viewers seem right for 6.5x9) plate camera, there's no room for rolls. Focusing is probably the lower knob on the right (visible) side, moving the bed back and forth under the solid front section, assuming there's a ground glass. Too many dials and knobs on the front -- one for shutter speed, one for aperture, leaves one more, perhaps to select a built-in filter? The extended lens suggests a date before the First World War, and it might well predate the turn of the 20th century; it's essentially a miniature, portable version of a rear focused folding flatbed camera.

 

The name, however, escapes me.

Just looked at every photo of every camera in my edition of McKeown's camera guide and there was no match . I can say that it is NOT the new 22MP digital camera that takes Ziess lenses, and has a 40 to 1 optical zoom.

all i could find is a name and a date

 

it seems this little fella is a DETECTIVE CYCLOS camera,made around 1935...but it looks like could be much earlier built for,as donald here mentioned,the shape of the lens suggests this.

 

otherwise,no luck with catalogues i found,perhaps other members here 'll have more luck...i am still curious about this :-)

 

i enhanced a bit the cameras so more detail is available now

 

while searching,found this exhibition online,quite interesting cameras and text

 

http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/cameras/index.htm?overview

 

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I've never seen one of these Iulian, but I think I need one really bad!

Iulian

 

Can you take a photo of the rear of the camera and the plate holder for me?

 

Thanks