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| − | The '''Vesta''' is a | + | The London camera-makers [[Adams & Co.]] made several cameras named '''Vesta'''. They might all be called strut-folding cameras. |
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| + | A quarter-plate (3¼x4¼-inch) example of this first style of Vesta, from the 1890s, is shown at ''Early Photography''.<ref name=EP_bag>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C172.html First-style, quarter-plate Vesta] with 5½-inch Wray Rapid Rectilinear, at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography].</ref> It is a strut-folding camera, with an unpleated leather bellows folding out of a shallow wooden rear body. At the front, it has a lens with rack-and-pinion focusing (a focus mechanism within the lens barrel, as seen on many Petzval lenses), and a simple shutter. It has a brilliant finder. The notes at ''Early Photography'' state that even the design of this first camera changed several times. | ||
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| + | ==Vesta with scissor-struts and folding bed== | ||
| + | The second type of the Vesta has a metal body, with leather covering, with a folding bed at the front. The front standard pulls forward on simple rails, supported from the body by scissor-struts. Focusing is by varying the extension of the struts and bellows. Most examples of this camera are for 2½x3½-inch (6.5x9cm) plates. The camera illustrated here is larger, probably quarter plate. Smaller cameras are also seen, down to 4.5x6cm. | ||
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| + | In earlier examples (1908-10, according to the notes at ''Early Photography''<ref name=EP_main>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C581.html Vesta cameras with a folding bed] at ''Early Photography'': three 2½x3½-inch cameras and one quarter-plate, and notes on the sequence of different models, lenses, etc.</ref>), there is a radial focusing lever and scale at the front of the bed; the standard intercepts this as it is pulled forward. Around 1910 this focus mechanism was replaced with a screw at the front of the bed. The example shown here still has a radial scale on the bed: not all cameras have this. | ||
| + | The camera allows front rise. Some cameras have the viewfinder shown in the photograph here, which adjusts upward with the rising front. | ||
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| + | In a few years, cameras were introduced for roll film,<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C990.html Roll-film Vesta] at ''Early Photography''.</ref> and with a [[focal-plane shutter]].<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C344.html Focal-plane Vesta]] at ''Early Photography.</ref>. There is even a stereo model.<ref>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C127.html Stereo Vesta] at ''Early Photography''</ref><ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Co.-Vesta-Stereo/AI-27-31513 Vesta Stereo] camera for roll film or plates, with 4¼-inch f/4.5 Cooke Anastigmat lenses, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-27/ 27th Westlicht Photographica Auction], in June 2015.</ref> | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| − | *[ | + | *[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Co.-Vesta-Model-A-6.5x9cm/AI-28-32815 Vesta] sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-28/ 28th Westlicht Photographica Auction], in November 2015. |
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| + | The '''Vesta''' is a mixture of strut folding camera and [[folding bed camera]]. The camera was made between 1909 and 1914 by [[Adams & Co.]] in London. It allowed certain [[lens board]] movements. The sample in the picture above is for a larger format and has a [[Taylor-Hobson]] [[Cooke]] Aviar [[Anastigmat]] 6inch Series II f/4.5 lens in unknown shutter and a [[brilliant finder]]. In 1914 a 4.5x6cm version with leather-covered metal body and [[Ross]]/[[Zeiss]] [[Tessar]] f/4.5 75mm lens and [[Compound]] shutter was made. It has a Newton type finder. Film pack adapters were common accessories for these cameras. --> | ||
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The London camera-makers Adams & Co. made several cameras named Vesta. They might all be called strut-folding cameras.
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Simple strut-folding Vesta, with no bed
A quarter-plate (3¼x4¼-inch) example of this first style of Vesta, from the 1890s, is shown at Early Photography.[1] It is a strut-folding camera, with an unpleated leather bellows folding out of a shallow wooden rear body. At the front, it has a lens with rack-and-pinion focusing (a focus mechanism within the lens barrel, as seen on many Petzval lenses), and a simple shutter. It has a brilliant finder. The notes at Early Photography state that even the design of this first camera changed several times.
Vesta with scissor-struts and folding bed
The second type of the Vesta has a metal body, with leather covering, with a folding bed at the front. The front standard pulls forward on simple rails, supported from the body by scissor-struts. Focusing is by varying the extension of the struts and bellows. Most examples of this camera are for 2½x3½-inch (6.5x9cm) plates. The camera illustrated here is larger, probably quarter plate. Smaller cameras are also seen, down to 4.5x6cm.
In earlier examples (1908-10, according to the notes at Early Photography[2]), there is a radial focusing lever and scale at the front of the bed; the standard intercepts this as it is pulled forward. Around 1910 this focus mechanism was replaced with a screw at the front of the bed. The example shown here still has a radial scale on the bed: not all cameras have this. The camera allows front rise. Some cameras have the viewfinder shown in the photograph here, which adjusts upward with the rising front.
In a few years, cameras were introduced for roll film,[3] and with a focal-plane shutter.[4]. There is even a stereo model.[5][6]
Notes
- ↑ First-style, quarter-plate Vesta with 5½-inch Wray Rapid Rectilinear, at Early Photography.
- ↑ Vesta cameras with a folding bed at Early Photography: three 2½x3½-inch cameras and one quarter-plate, and notes on the sequence of different models, lenses, etc.
- ↑ Roll-film Vesta at Early Photography.
- ↑ Focal-plane Vesta] at Early Photography.
- ↑ Stereo Vesta at Early Photography
- ↑ Vesta Stereo camera for roll film or plates, with 4¼-inch f/4.5 Cooke Anastigmat lenses, sold at the 27th Westlicht Photographica Auction, in June 2015.
Links
- Vesta sold at the 28th Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2015.
