Lancaster produced a range of multi-lens cameras for Gem or Victoria size images. These were essentially very similar cameras differing in the number of lenses (between 2 and 12) and whether a repeating back was fitted. When introduced in 1880 the camera had 12 lenses, two years later other sizes were introduced. The price of this example was £5.5.0.

In the early 1900s the Lancaster multi-lens cameras become a box shape with a flap or slide in front of the lenses.

Late model from the early 1900s. The camera can be used to take portraits directly or for copying existing photographs.