Help identify this 4x5 "point and shoot"

[Peterf]

I recently picked up a 4x5 camera with very little in the way of markings. I bought it for the roller blind shutter to put on another camera.

The camera itself is in relatively good condition and had some great quality 4x5 slide boxes I just can't figure out manufacturer or any distinctive markings. I've never come across a fixed bellows point and shoot 4x5 before so it's a bit of a novelty. Camera has a rear ground glass on a hinge that moves away to allow the film holder to fit. Pictures are attached.

Any help identifying it would be appreciated.

Cheers

Peter (Canada)

[Jody_S]

Someone cut the back off an old woody, got a (German copy of a) Thornton-Pickard shutter, and 3-D printed the cone to hold them together?

[Peterf]

Hey Jody
The black body is full metal and well finished. I'd be surprised if it was homemade!

[Louis Pacilla]

It could go with a European medical/scientific photography instrument but hard to tell. I would look through period correct catalogs with those photographic instruments.

[Bob Salomon]

Looks like an old microscope or oscillagraph camera.

Here is a Leitz version with its 45 Linhof Technika back.

https://www.leicashop.com/media/catalog/product/cache/3/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/3/1/31230_12_d.jpg

[reddesert]

I agree that is likely a plate recording camera for a scientific instrument. My guess is that it could have been used with a spectrometer, which would have contained the optics to project the image onto the plate. Here are a couple of examples of such things (these are probably older - wood body, no shutter):
https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co115356/hilger-wavelength-spectroscope-with-camera-london-england-1919-spectroscope
http://woodandbrass.co.uk/detail.php?cat_num=0346

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Image from the UK Science Museum Group, shared under a CC-BY-NC-SA license.