Collins Patent Field - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Collins Patent Field Camera

1887

Army & Navy Auxiliary C.S. Ltd

London

England

Chas. G. Collins

London

England

Image of Collins Patent Field Camera

Lens:
f8, 8 ¼" Dallmeyer Rapid Rectilinear, slot for Waterhouse stops. Marked 6 x 5. Serial no. 31181 (c. 1882).

Shutter:
None.

Construction:
Mahogany, dovetail joints. Square cornered, leather bellows.

Format:
6 ½" x 4 ¾" plates held in double dark-slides.

Focusing:
Bellows. Double extension, rack and pinion (straight cut) to inner frame.

Attributes:
Removable lens panel. Turntable in base (McKellen's patent).

Movements:
Rising front, tilting front, swing front, tilting back.

Serial Number:
246 .

Notes:
Address: Francis St. London. S. W.

With:
1 double dark-slide. Case.

T. J. Collins's patent covers a method of attaching the front standard to the baseboard. The standard is loosely attached by pins to two saddles which slide along tracks on the focusing frame. The saddles have a slot cut in them, a cam can be moved which closes the slot and so tightens the saddle to the track. A certain amount of swinging front movement is provided by the pins. The saddle arrangement does not work particularly well.

References & Notes:
BP 10103/1887. Phot. Journal 1887, p. vi.


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