1920's camera

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Visited my grandparents this week and they gave me this, I think it's 1920's. The negatives are on glass slides. My grandad got it over 30 years ago. He has no idea who's it was.
Anyone got any input on it?
Rare? I'm not going to sell it, I've been thinking for a while about collecting old cameras and displaying them on a few shelfs. There a great talking point and a real piece of history.
 

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I'm not saying it is but it looks very similar to a Kodak Voigtlander Camera and the glass plates look to be about 2"x 3"
Are they initials on the right side of the lens?
 
Couple more pics.
 

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It looks like a camera that was made by a German company called STEINHEIL MUNCHEN.

I Can't give you any exact model name but hopefully it gives you a starting point. Not rare, a bit like the Voigtlander.
 
CMOT said:
pugh-the-special-one said:
I bet you could print off those glass negatives if you had an enlarger and dark room.
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Shouldn't be too hard to scan on any flatbed scanner then invert the tones.
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You wouldn't get a brilliant reproduction using a scanner. Using an enlarger would be best, or If you have any black and white paper and photo chemicals you could do a contact print.
 
pugh-the-special-one said:
You are right there Peter to get the very best out of the negative you really would need an enlarger.
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Definitely Jamie, 5" x 4" enlarger with a 6 X 9 cm holder, and some good old Ilford Multigrade paper. :)
 
A contact print would be interesting but darkrooms are few and far between these days. An enlarger with a carrier for 2x3 inch glass would be very rare indeed. Scanners do vary but with such a big original I think the quality would be more limited by the neg and camera than the scan. Many photographers currently shooting 5x4 inch and larger film use flatbed scans and get amazing results. You would also have the option to deal with the inevitable blemishes very easily.
 
You don't scan negs with a normal flatbed scanner though, not if you want a good result anyway, you use a scanner with a back light which shines light through the negative. Mine only does 35mm and 120 film though so I can't help.
 
Cheers guys, I've got a 35 mm neg scanner. Never seen anything this large though.
I'll give the scanner idea a shot. I've got adobe lightroom so should be able to touch it up if I get a decent scan.
 
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A contact print would be interesting but darkrooms are few and far between these days. An enlarger with a carrier for 2x3 inch glass would be very rare indeed. Scanners do vary but with such a big original I think the quality would be more limited by the neg and camera than the scan. Many photographers currently shooting 5x4 inch and larger film use flatbed scans and get amazing results. You would also have the option to deal with the inevitable blemishes very easily.
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They still teach photography students how to use and develop their own film and print, so trying a local college that offers a photography BTech or higher course, then you might touch lucky with them still having a 5" x 4" enlarger. A 6 x 9 cm neg carrier is about the nearest metric equivalent to a 2" X 3"
 
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