Lockdown has helped me sort out a box with an old Scovill basic Waterbury-type whole-plate camera with destroyed bellows and no ground glass to be restored (and to which I fitted an Iris-type lens...
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Lockdown has helped me sort out a box with an old Scovill basic Waterbury-type whole-plate camera with destroyed bellows and no ground glass to be restored (and to which I fitted an Iris-type lens...
c.1925 Görlitzer Camera Werke studio half-plate camera & stand with Voigtländer Heliar 4,5/240 lens, photographed with a c.1911 Thornton Pickard "Imperial" Triple Extension half-plate camera with a...
(So sue me... :) )
"Fergie in the Rape"
Not 5"x7", but Imperial's closest predecessor - half plate (4¾"x6½") Thornton Pickard Imperial Triple Exension (Ca 1908) with original 8" f/8 RR lens, Ilford...
Yes, however the shutter as it was was beyond saving easily - the curtain was completely perished and the spring was broken. When I got the camera the shutter was removed and in pieces and the lens...
I always wanted a Thornton Pickard Imperial ½ plate camera.
I finally found one (circa 1908), brought it back to being nice and bright and serviceable again, adapted it to an Arca plate mount for...