Cameras : Thornton Pickard folding plate camera

Object detail

Accession number

04-1134

Marks

Folding field camera by Thornton Pickard. Note that the lens is a Beck Symmetrical. The advantage of a Symmetrical design of a lens was first recognised by Dallmeyer in 1866 in his Rapid Rectilinear lens, one of the most popular lenses of the 19th Century. Any symmetrical lens construction almost automatically corrects for coma, distortion and chromatic aberration. Practically all modern wide angle lenses are of a symmetrical or near symmetrical design for this reason. Hand-written
Ilford Imprint

Media/Materials

Processed Material/Paper/Photographic

Physical description

1 photograph : black and white ; 13 x 9 cm

Credit Line

Cameras : Thornton Pickard folding plate camera, 04-1134. Walsh Memorial Library, The Museum of Transport and Technology (MOTAT).

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Photograph Print, Photographic Communication Artefacts Documentary Artefacts Graphic Documents

Subject

Cameras Thornton Pickard camera

Collection type

Institutional Archives Walsh Memorial Library

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Digital camera Camera Camera lens Flash photography Camera accessory Reflex camera Single-lens reflex camera Lens Cameras & optics Film camera

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