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Underwood's 'Umbra' Folding Plate Field Camera, by Underwood

Inventory Number 68661


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.68661

Item type
Object
Makers
Underwood
Dimensions
Height: 285mm Width: 275mm Depth: 58mm Weight: 4.15kg
Inventory No
68661

Description

The camera has a glass base with a wooden frame, a large front wooden plate with a large, metal-rimmed aperture, an inner plate with a smaller aperture and bellows that extend on copper alloy running plates. Also present are two square wooden plates with metal-rimmed apertures, one painted and one not painted, three wooden folding plates with dark green cotton covers, a shutter housed in a wooden box with an operating mechanism and two lens assemblies of different sizes in copper alloy mounting, with dust caps and contained in crimson baize cylindrical cases.