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Unique Cameras { 16 images } Created 13 May 2016

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  • A 27.4 MG IMAGE OF:....Le Coultre Watch Company Switzerland--There were 42 unexposed rolls of film with the camera. Film made by Ilford. Camera used both roll film and plate film
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  • A 28.4 MG IMAGE OF:.Eclipse shutter.  In the first decades of photography the cameras had no shutters.   At first  there was a lens and then the lenses came with ?Waterhouse Stops? to regulate the amount of light to expose the image.  The long exposure time needed to record the image was controlled by the photographer removing and replacing  the cameras lens cap. About the 1880?s the plates or film increased in speed and exposures could be made for times faster than the photographer working with the lens cap  .  Shutters that controlled exposure speed would be built into the camera, but the ?eclipse? was  an early attempt to  control the shuttler speed.  Curator John Hiller examines the Eclipse  Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 28 MG IMAGE OF:.Tuxi Camera:  Convenient to carry and easy to conceal, miniature cameras are practical for spies and reporters and irresistible to the rest of us.  In the 1950s Walter Kunik of Frankfurt, Germany, produced a tiny camera concealed in a cigarette lighter.  It has a flash sync outlet and a F/7.7 25mm lens. photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 27.7 MG IMAGE OF:.Machine Gun Camera  Since film was safer and cheaper than bullets, World War I-era British and American machine-gunners sometimes trained with weapons fitted with cameras that recorded what the soldiers would have hit had their guns been loaded.  This model was made in 1915 by the Thornton-Pickard Company in Altrincham, England at about the same time.  Kodak made a camera that attached to a Lewis machine gun.Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 28 MG IMAGE OF:.The button hole camera--also called a ?Detective Camera?photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 27.7 MG IMAGE OF:..Unseen Cameras at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington,DC, A close up of the lens of a camera created by Samuel F.B. Morse--believed to be the first camera used  in the United States. Photo by Dennis Brack,
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  • A 28.1 MG IMAGE OF:.Rare unseen cameras at the Smitsonian Institution..The camera used by Tom Howard Pacific and Atlantic Photo Service for the New York daily News to record the execution of Ruth Synder at Sing Sing in 1928. Photo by dennis Brack
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  • A 27.6 MG IMAGE OF:.The Pathex 9.5mm camera and projector. Both the camera and the projector were hand cranked.  The projector had a light bulb that was powered by the hand crank. ie. a mini generator.  It could also be powered by wall current.  The film was perforated in the center.  It was introduced in France in 1922 and in America three years later.  Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 26.5 MG IMAGE OF:.Combat Speed Graphic  During World War II, the U.S. military adapted the classic press camera for use in the field.  Olive drab instead of black, it was stripped of chrome and all nonessential parts.  The lens was an Anastigmat Special F/4.7 127 mm.  Photographers could make exposures from one to one-thousandth of a second long.Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 28.1 MG IMAGE OF:.Rare unseen cameras at the Smitsonian Institution..The camera used by Tom Howard Pacific and Atlantic Photo Service for the New York daily News to record the execution of Ruth Synder at Sing Sing in 1928. Photo by dennis Brack
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  • A 27 MG IMAGE OF:.. The Lumiere-cinematographe.  This was a combination of a camera and a projector.  This was the first practical camera that you could go out and make a movie and people did.  Short ten to fifteen second slips of  places and people around the world were made and collected.  Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 28.2 MG IMAGE OF:.Smithsonian Instituion curator, John Hiller, finds a camera in one of the hundreds of storage cabinets at the Suitland storage pod.Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 28.3 MG IMAGE OF:.A collection of lenses storage at the Smithsonian Institution ware house in Suitland, Maryland. Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 25.1 MG IMAGE OF:.Flash Powder Gun  The U- shaped tray held a small amount of magnesium: the person holding the gun would ignite it by making a spark with a flint mechanism in the handle.  This model, the Meteor Model A, was made in Brooklyn, New York.Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 25.9 IMAGE OF:A sub miniature camera concealed in a cigarette pack.  Made by R. Krauss Company in Paris, it measures 2? by 1 1/8? by 3 5/8?, has a Zeiss Tessar f/4 lens, and uses 16 mm film. The camera was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by the NEW YORK DAILY NEWS  in 1974. Photo by Dennis Brack
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  • A 27.7 MG IMAGE OF:..360 degree Panoramic Camera.  Eighteen inches wide, this camera rests on a platform:  the key winds a spring to revolve the camera, which makes a full circle.   Frederick W. Meuller built the camera in 1904 and it was used to record the disastrous fire in Baltimore in 1904.  This panorama can be seen at:  http://busybox.org/baltimore_qtvrt1.html. Photo by Dennis Brack
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