Shew
1899 company image image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
James F Shew & Company were a camera manufacturer based in London, England, reportedly working from c.1849 until c.1920[1]. The address most seen in advertisements was 88 Newman Street (off Oxford Street), others are listed at Early Photograhy.[2]
Shew ½-plate tailboard camera with Shew "Eclipse" shutter image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Aluminium Xit ¼-plate with f/6.8 Syntor in Goerz diaphragm shutter. image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Cameras
British companies | ||
Adams & Co. | Agilux | Aldis | APeM | Aptus | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beard | Beck | Benetfink | Billcliff | Boots | British Ferrotype | Butcher | Chapman | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dekko | De Vere | Dixons | Dollond | Elliott | Gandolfi | Gnome | Griffiths | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Johnson | Kentmere | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lejeune and Perken | Lizars | London & Paris Optic & Clock Company | Marion | Marlow | Meagher | MPP | Neville | Newman & Guardia | Pearson and Denham | Perken, Son and Company | Perken, Son & Rayment | Photopia | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Reynolds and Branson | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Sands & Hunter | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Underwood | United | Watkins | Watson | Wynne's Infallible | Wray |
- Day Xit c.1910
- Detectivkamera
- Eclipse c.1890
- Eclipse Focal Plane
- Eclipse Pocket
- Euxit Vest Pocket
- Featherweight Camera, c.1898
- Fieldcamera Stereo
- Five Guinea Xit c.1904
- Focal Plane Xit 1905
- Guinea Xit c.1906
- Hand Universal Camera
- Pocket Xit
- Press Reflector A abd B
- Reflector Reflex
- Shewgraphe Patent
- Stereo Field Camera c.1900
- Tailboard Camera c.1900
- Tailboard Camera Stereo
- Two Guinea Xit c. 1904
- Wideangle camera, c.1893
- Xit(wooden)
- Xit (aluminium) c.1900
- Xit Stereoscopic
Sources
- McKeown, pp.889-890
- Price List of General Photographic Apparatus and Materials from Kodak Ltd., reprint on Google Books
Links
- Shew camera, c.1902 at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
- Shew camera listing at the Historic Camera
- Photos at Collectiblend.com: