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J. Lancaster & Son was a renowned optician and camera maker based in Birmingham. It made wooden view cameras, among them several cameras for smaller plate formats. The 1/4-plate Lancaster Instantograph was perhaps one of the better known, easily identified by the top side nameplate including model year. A very special model was the Gem Apparatus of 1880, a camera with twelve lenses to shoot the same subject twelve times at once. Lancaster made its own lenses and had own shutter patents. Other products were magic lanterns. And when Lancaster made metal cameras it had to be very special ones like the telescopic Patent Watch Camera in pocket watch format.
cameras / corresponding external links[]
a Lancaster view camera |
- 1880: Gem Apparatus / [1] at www.eastman.org
- 1882: Instantograph / [2] at www.waterfordcountymuseum.org
- 1882: Le "Merveilleux" / [3] at www.antiquewoodcameras.com
- 1886: Watch camera / [4] at www.eastman.org
- 1891: Stereo Instantograph / [5] at www.antiquewoodcameras.com
- ....: Stereo Meritoire
- J. Lancaster & Sons List of Cameras at Historic Camera
History of J. Lancaster & Sons Co. at Historic Camera