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DopinG
3-Oct-2010, 03:58
What her name?
Tell about her. Thanks
http://i060.radikal.ru/1010/a6/6afa8a8f5438.jpg
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Sirius Glass
3-Oct-2010, 06:18
"Ruddy" from Dr. Rudolph Hugo Meyer :)

cowanw
3-Oct-2010, 06:41
It's an ICA after 1909 pre Zeiss-Ikon in 1926.
Regards
Bill

cowanw
3-Oct-2010, 07:00
This is a nice history of ICA
http://www.kl-riess.dk/ica.hist.html
Regrds
Bill

DopinG
3-Oct-2010, 08:39
Thank you, friends. This camera should have a focusing screen? I saw only a scale. As think, will suit for wet plate? How many it costs?

desertrat
3-Oct-2010, 09:15
That's an interesting lens. It's a fast (f2) motion picture lens. The "Kino" prefix strongly indicates that. It also appears to have a focal length of 4.2 cm! The only reason I can think of such a lens being mounted on a camera like that would be for macro-photography.

The Dr. Rudolph part of the name is probably Dr. Rudolph Krügener mentioned in the linked article. However, there was another Dr. Rudolph in the picture at Hugo Meyer. Dr. Paul Rudolph was chief of the photographic lens department at Zeiss from about 1890 - 1910. He designed the Protars, Planar, Unnar, Tessar, and a couple of other lenses. He retired in 1911, but was forced to go back to work in the 1920s when the catastrophic inflation in Germany wiped out his savings. He returned to Zeiss for a short while, but then went to work for Hugo Meyer, where he designed the Plasmat series of lenses.

I found this bio info in A History of the Photographic Lens, by Dr. Rudolph Kingslake.

DopinG
4-Oct-2010, 11:33
Thanks. This camera should have a focusing screen? It costs 600$?

desertrat
5-Oct-2010, 13:53
There are people here who know about old plate cameras. I'm surprised no one has responded. It looks very unusual, with a dark slide going right into the camera back. That back may be a plate holder, and the whole thing should be removable. There may have been a separate back with a focusing screen. Does the camera have any accessories not shown in the picture?

Also, you will need to find another lens, because that one will only work with very small objects placed about 5 centimeters in front of the lens.

Louis Pacilla
5-Oct-2010, 16:20
Very cool camera.

My Guess is it's some type of Enlarging/copy camera.

Too new to be wet plate by design . Wet plate had not yet had a re-birth. The time period of your camera I would guess to be (1910-1930) Dry plate days:) .

It appears to have very little movements with possibly only front shift & rear tilt?.

Then the the very long bellows in two stages.

Now it's possible that with the tapered rear bellows. The camera could have had another front standard to convert to field camera How about that, two cameras in one.

Again, the above is just my guess:)

el french
6-Oct-2010, 00:17
Very cool camera. I'd really like to see an image from this one.

Sevo
6-Oct-2010, 02:45
It doubtlessly is some sort of close distance camera for one particular (enlarging copy) application, the lack of movements, close focus only lens and slider all point to that. I would not be surprised if that back door hides a glass plate and felt pressure plate film holder.

Drew Bedo
6-Oct-2010, 17:38
I'd like to own the camera . . .but then I'd like to have the space for it . . .and I'd like to have my wife's permission!