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''There is also a quarter-plate tailboard camera named the [[Albion]], made by [[Underwood]] of Birmingham at about the same time.'' | ''There is also a quarter-plate tailboard camera named the [[Albion]], made by [[Underwood]] of Birmingham at about the same time.'' | ||
Revision as of 22:48, 13 February 2014
There is also a quarter-plate tailboard camera named the Albion, made by Underwood of Birmingham at about the same time.
The Albion is a quarter-plate folding field camera, sold by the chain of high-street chemists Taylor's Drug Company Ltd of Leeds at around the turn of the twentieth century; notes at Wood and Brass suggest the camera was probably made for Taylor's by another maker,[1] and notes on Watkinson and Co., also of Leeds, at Early Photography, suggest that company may have made cameras for Taylor's.[2] Early Photography shows an example of the Albion with a six-inch f/8 Rapid Rectilinear lens with an iris diaphragm,[3] while the one at Wood and Brass has a lens with an aperture disc.[1] The camera is made from mahogany wood, with brass fittings. It has a double-extension bellows, rack-and-pinion focusing, front rise and rear tilt.[3]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Albion at Wood and Brass.
- ↑ Watkinson company notes at Early Photography.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Albion at Early Photography.
