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[chassis]

Toyo 45AII in portrait configuration with Nikkor W 300/5.6, extension back and PocketWizard.

[Nedim]

Anyone give some information about this camera??

[Nedim]

Anyone give some information about this camera??

[Steven Tribe]

Need a bit more description and text on the lens/Filter (?).

It is a German Camera and it has a (very advanced for its era!) German shutter, but with a T,T & H (UK) lens - probably a triplet. Looks like the 9x12cm size.

[Nedim]

Good afternoon Steven
Firstly thank you for your reply and information you asked is bellowed.
Taylor Taylor & Hobson Ltd Cooke lens H.D Taylor's patents May 28 1895 September 22 1896
4x5 inches Series III. Eq focus 6.3 inches No 18566 Leicester London & New York
This is encrypted on the lens.
Thanks again in advance for your help
Kind regards
Nedim

[Steven Tribe]

Probably from around 1905. The Shutter is from that period and the series 3 Cooke triplet was becoming a very popular lens. The extension rails are quite narrow, which was great for the early RR lenses (F8) and just about OK for the early anstigmatics. Then the Tessar came along with an F4.5 which needed wider lens mounts and, therefore, wider rail tracks.

There were "no name" cameras, but there may be a name somewhere on the camera - often embossed on the leather cover Handle or back.

There should be a focussing scale on the left-hand side of the camera and "stop" positions. IT may even match the lens which is currently mounted! If you don't have plate/plate holders, these are available - but there are a number of styles.

Plenty of these lightweight cameras are still in use, along with the larger size 13x18cm.
Film and Paper are readily available from Germany at fair prices.

[Nedim]

Thank you and I got a name for camera is Glunz Hannover, I find this camera and more with few camcorders on my loft. I have been living here over ten years and never realised. They were really hidden in the corner. I might try to use them but seems like I got lots to learn.

[Yuval]

My old M450 all dressed up with it's newly acquired wide-angle kit :

an adaptable recessed lens-plate, and a bag-bellows :

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My new baby W.Butcher&Sons half plate camera

[Marc Akemann]

This was recently photographed for a conversation regarding my last Polaroid item I have. A box of Polaroid Type 55 that I'll soon be shooting with my Plaubel Peco Universal III 4x5. My comment also included a short story of how I obtained the camera. I won't bore you with all of that but I will say that there's a very good chance that two hall-of-fame photographers owned this camera. Walter E. Bennett, the first salaried photographer for "Time" magazine. His personal decals of his signature were on many of the items I bought, and, the signature matched the Wally Bennett who covered the White House (for "Time") during the 60s & 70s.

The other photog who probably owned this camera was “Life” magazine photographer Frank J. Scherschel who covered WWII and is famous for his color images from that time. The person I bought this from found the camera, 2 lenses, holders, etc., in a case at an estate sale in Baraboo, Wisconsin from a camera store that was going out of business due to the passing of the owner...Frank J. Scherschel.