Item is an eye-level box camera with Bakelite body and rounded edges. This model features a Dakon lens.

Item is a simple to use camera for use with the proprietary "Disc" film format. Kodak introduced the 15 exposure cartridges in 1982, while they were popular when first introduced, the small negatives 911 x 8 mm) often resulted in poor quality prints and the format soon lost its popularity.

Item is a silver subminiature camera, for 10 x 14 mm exposures on 16mm film. In original box, includes Minolta brand colour print film, camera case, strap and tripod mount.

Item is a 35mm stereo camera with CdS metering. Manual or automatic exposure. 24 x 29mm images. Industar-81 F2.8/38mm lenses. Comes with leather pouch, sun shades, small parts, and hard plastic case.

Item is a 35 mm camera with a 4 second - 1/1000th of a second vertical shutter and interchangeable lenses with aperture priority auto-exposure. Attached lens is a 1:3.2 18mm accura/sigma.

File contains instruction manuals and users guides for cameras manufactured by Yashica, Japan.

Item is a set of 5 plate holders for 3.25 x 4.25 plate film cameras.

Item is a mechanical shutter with pneumatic operation, includes bulb and tubing. The Packard-Ideal shutter is used behind the lens in large-format view cameras.

Item is a holder for 6x9 cm plates or film packs.

Item is a Trifocal Viewfinder. The earliest Bolex model H motion picture cameras included this viewfinder which could be fitted at the top or on the side of the camera. The field of view is shown for lenses of 3 focal lengths. Field of view is changed by raising or lowering side levers which move magnifying prisms into place inside the viewer. When fitted to the side of the film door, the finder offers parallax correction by adjusting a dial which corresponds to the distance between the subject and lens. The H-16 version shows the angle of view for 15mm, 25mm and 75mm lenses; the H-8 version adjusts for 6.5, 12.5 and 35mm. A serial number is located on the rear of the viewfinder which, in most cases, matches the serial number of the camera to which it is attached.

Item is to be used for duplication of 35mm slides or film strips. The bellows are folded into the adapter unit and is kept in place out of sight with a magnet to protect it from damage.

Item is an assortment of 4 lenses for 35 mm cameras.

Item is a lens for a large studio camera with a built in iris.

Item is a lens that comes with Adaptall 2 Nikon. The lens has an AI Mount and a leather case.

Item is a box containing various lens caps and filters for still cameras, movie cameras etc.

Could be synchronized with any type of still camera. But the sync cable is missing.

Item is an electronic flash for the Polaroid Land camera, designed to fill in shadows from indoor lighting. The flash could fire 100 times before having to replace the bulb.

Identical guns (A and B). Connected by cable. Probably a Euopean maker. Takes 3c type batteries

Item is an extinction light meter use for still photography.

Item is a selinium cell type light meter. Comes with presentation box. Working condition. Used with Polaroid 110A/B cameras.

Item is an inexpensive selinium cell typelight meter. Working condition. To be used with model 95b Polaroid land camera. Comes with box.

Item comes in an original box with instruction sheet. The crank to advance film on to the cassette is missing.

Item is a tube containing chemicals that were to be dissolved in water to develop prints for film and plates.

Item is 2 package of photographic paper: Eastman Kodak paper, 2.25 x 3.25 size Solio Paper and Velvet velox developing paper. Both manufactured by Candian Kodak Co. Limited. Directions are missing from both packages.

Item is a box of 9 x 12cm metal film sheaths to put cut film into plate cameras.

Item is 2 unopened disc films, 30 exposure each. Expiry date is stamped on package: "06/1988"

regular bromide black and white paper, 8 x 10 - Glossy - unexposed. In opened original light-safe package

Fonds consists of records the Wilhelm E. Nassau created during his time at Wilfrid Laurier University, working in the development of the Audio-Visual department as a professor and curator of an extensive collection of photographic and film cameras and technology. This collection was amassed for the purpose of teaching students of the university and was curated by Nassau over the span of fourty years. Cameras were collected from students, faculty, and employees as well as purchased from local camera shows. The collection traced the history and development of the tools used in these fields. The collection was donated to both Brock University (motion picture and video materials) and the Ryerson University Library and Archives (still photography materials). Objects in the donation were distributed amoung the Heritage Camera Collection (2005.006), the Photography and Film Technology Collection (2005.005), and the Photographic Publications Collection (2005.003).

Item is a wooden box camera with leatherette covering for large 8.25 x 10.8 cm (3.25 x 4.25") exposures on 124 film. The design is simple, with a fixed focus and shutter speed. The roll film was advanced past the lens manually with a small crank. The original sales price was $4.00.

Item is a subminiature camera from the Minolta series, with detachable dedicated electronic flash, carrying case, presentation case, strap and lens filters. Many accessories were available for this model, including a slide projector, enlarger, and laboratory equipment.

Item is a four-lens, three-dimensional camera, originally developed by the Nimslo company, the Nishika copies were created after Nimslo was taken over by Nishika in 1989. The camera has a plastic body and 4 identical lenses, a fixed 1/60th shutter that exposes the four square images in synch. When exposed, the 35mm film had to be sent to specialty labs equipped for autostereo (lenticular) colour printing, which produced a true stereo image without the use of glasses. This process was also developed by Nims and Lo, of the original company.

Item is a 35mm camera, similar to the Olympus OM-1 MD, but fully automatic aperture-priority metering. World's first camera with OTF (off-the-film) metering. Chrome. Item comes with 2 manuals.

Item is an instant camera for Polaroid SX-70 film. Similar design to Polaroid One Step Camera

Item contains the following filters:

1 Olympus 55mm Skylight 1A
1 Fuji Film Light Balancing Filter A2 for Fujica Single-8
1 Kodak Series VII Daylight Filter for Type A film
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-10M
1 Kodak Series VI yello color filter
1 Omag filter 40
1 Canon close up lens uv filter 72mm 1100
1 Kenko LBW10 49 orange filter
1 Kodak #2 yellow filter (glass only)
1 Kodak Series VI Kodachrome Haze filter
1 Kodak #13 Close-up attachment
1 Kodak Series V Wratten Filter
1 Kodak Wrattan filter # 54 B
1 Kodak series VI adapter ring 31.5mm
1 Kodak Series 4 daylight filter for type A color films No. 85
1 Kodak Close-up attachment No. 6A
1 Kodak Series VI adapter ring 31.5mm with UV filter
1 Kodak Series V wratten filter A
1 Kodak orange filter, glass only
1 Kodak cloud filter No. 13
1 Kodak Series 5 daylight filter for type F color film
1 Kodak Series 6 Skylight filter No. 1A
1 Kodak Series VI Wratten filter No. 85B
1 Hoya 40.5 85B
1 walz UV filter
1 EdnaLite filter 514
1 EdnaLite filter 601
1 Voigtlander G1/37 mm
1 Walz red filter for Argus C-3
1 Walz #112 1A filter
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-05M
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-10C
1 Eumig Makro filter
1 Zeiss Ikon 351/6 graduated yellow filter
1 Carl Zeiss Jena Proxar 0.67 x 37
1 Zeiss Ikon 988/12 yellow filter
1 Sharplite optical filters Type A 21.5
1 Harrison corrector disc
1 Minolta color filter set for Minolta-16 II
1 Polaroid light polarizing series VI filter
1 Kodak Wratten gelatin No. 1A Skylight filter
1 Lee filters sample set
1 roscolene filter sample set
1 Minolta filter set
1 Canon 72mm No. 4x
1 Zeiss Ikon Contapol 4x polarizing filter
1 No. 1 58mm filter
1 Kodak series VI wrattan filter A red filter
1 Aroma 55mm No. 2 filter
1 Optex 52mm UV filtre
1 1 m - 40" filter
1 2 m - 80"
1 Tiffen 49mm Hazan filter
1 B+W 50mm ES 101 filter
2 Toshiba 52mm SL-1A filter
1 Kodak series V adapter ring 25.5mm with series V wrattan filter no. 85 B
1 Sepia filter (glass only)
1 Kodak FIV/32 -1.5 L=3x orange filter
1 Lifa Tagesslicht
1 red filter (glass only)
1 Impakt 1A 55mm filter
1 Toshiba 52mm SL-1A
1 yellow filter (glass only)
1 Tiffen 67mm 80 B blue filter
1 Toshiba 72mm SL-1A filter
1 set of Crown 52mm close up filters
1 Utilo filter Wratten K-2 No. 8 yellow filter
1 set Kodak Cmbinaion filter series VI

Wire is in bad shape

Electronic Flash - semi-automatic for hot shoe or synch-cabled cameras. In original box, with instruction manual and warranty card.

Battery operated. Fires small flash bulbs

Auto transitor sets flash intensity, automatic to camera conveyed by hot shoe or cable. Uses AA batteries. Includes box, owner's manual and warranty.

1 empty box; 1 full. Different kinds.

Item is an extinction exposure meter for motion picture cameras.

Item is a selenium cell type light meter. Working condition, selinium cell is weak. Incident light attachement is missing

Item is a reflected and incident light meter powered by selenium photo cell.

Item is a lot of 3 condensor lenses for photo enlargers.

Item is a wooden film developing tank.

This item is a daylight developing tank, manufactured by Minox and made of bakelite material. The tank comes with two rings to be used in the development of shorter 15 and 36 exposure lengths of film introduced in 1968 and 1969. The thermometer is no longer with the tank. The tank comes with original packaging.

The item is constructed from two pieces of black metal with rectangular and square openings to be used with 3 1/2 x 5 inch photographic paper to produce two different sizes of prints .

Item is a set of 11 various film formats - 35mm, Advance photosystem, Discs, etc.

Item is an unopened package of one dozen 4x5 glass plate negatives. Stamp on back indicates best used by October 5, 1935.

15 exposure colour disc film. Expiry 04-1994 - 3 unopened packages.

Item is an extention cable that allows the operation of compatable camera shutters without danger of the camera shaking when the shutter is released. Attachment fits standard shutter release mechanisms.

Item is a mechanical self timer that can be scewed into a cable release socket, providing variable delay in tripping of shutter. Timer comses with plastic case

Item consists of 3 negative holders for 2 4x5 sheets of cut film.

Item is a set of bellows with a mount adapter used for macro photography and copying film.

Item is to be used for duplication of 35mm slides or film strips. The bellows are folded into the adapter unit and is kept in place out of sight with a magnet to protect it from damage. Manufactured by Century Optics.

Item is a set of lens extension rings used to be able to focus closer for still cameras. Used for macro photography.

Item is a perspective correction lens.

Item has interchanghable mount - similar concept to Tamron's adaptall mount. The item has a Nkion mount adapter.American Allied Impex Corporation manufactured photographic equipment under the Soligor brand commencing in 1956.

3 close up lens in leather pouch (+1, +2, +3). The lens have a diameter of 52mm. The lenses can be used individually or in combination to do micro photography.

Item is a lens manufactured by the Omega Division of Optische Werke G. Rodenstock. Plastic case is included.

File contains instruction manuals and users guides for cameras manufactured by Zeiss Ikon or Contax.

Item is a viewing system for 3 dimentional photographic transparancy disks, published by the View-Master company.

This series consists of original and duplicate early cameras from the beginning of the history of photography. Based on the basic design of the camera obscura and produced between about 1820 and 1870, these simple devices were usually solid or sliding box cameras with uncomplicated lenses. The shutter was normally outside of the lens, in the form of a lens cap that was simple removed and replaced for exposure, or a rotating metal plate on the front of the lens, which held the aperture. These cameras mainly predated dry plate and flexible film photography, and were used to take Daguerreotype, wet-plate and salted paper photographs.

To browse the individual items in this series, click on the "View the list" link under the "File and item records are available for this series" title (to the right of the page).

Item is a small, Bakelite camera for 8 exposures on 828 format roll film (developed by Kodak in 1935 and similar in size to 135 film, without sprocket holes). The camera features a simple viewfinder, 51mm f 4.5 lens and a 4 speed Flash 200 shutter.

Item is an instant load 126 cartridge film camera with an 44 mm Argus Cintar lens. The camera features fixes shutter speed, auto exposure using a selenium cell and has a flashcube socket, tripod socket, and automatic film speed sensing.

Item is a small, plastic novelty camera that shoots four consecutive photos on one frame of 35 mm film. The rotating shutter exposes them in sequence, at intervals of about 0.22 sec.The result is four images on a single negative that show the movement of a subject in phases. The process uses the same concepts as the stop-motion animation used by Eadweard Muybridge in his Animal Locomotion series of the late 1800's. The camera is a very simple design and has no focusing or aperture control and a simple sports style viewfinder. The shutters are fixed at 1/100 of a second.

Item is a 35mm camera stamped "Made in Occupied Japan", which began a long history of Konica cameras made for export. The shutter was mounted on the top of a fixed tube.

Item is a 35mm camera, sold as the EOS 50 outside of North America.

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera manufactured in Munich, Germany. Exposure indicator in the viewfinder shows a green light for correct exposure and a red light for underexposed scenes.

Item is an automatic exposure single-lens reflex 35mm camera. Metering is center-weighted and aperture priority.