Daguerreotype camera, brass cylindrical body on a pillar stand, with two end caps and one single brass dark slide, attributed to Thomas Davidson of Edinburgh, 1840

Early calotype camera with lens, c. 1840, part of equipment used by Fox Talbot, the inventor of the photographic negative/positive process

Small daguerreotype camera with a metal spring back, lens missing

Wooden camera used by Fox Talbot, lens missing

Camera made by Kemp and Co., Edinburgh, lens missing, used by Fox Talbot

Calotype camera with a metal focusing cover over hole, home-made, belonging to W.H. Fox Talbot, 1840s

Daguerreotype camera, large size, used by Fox Talbot, made by Alphonse Giroux et Cie, 1839

Dry collodion plate camera, lens and mount missing, used by Fox Talbot

'Box Brownie' roll-film camera, with 3/4" viewfinder cube, made of leatherette-covered cardboard, by Eastman Kodak Co., c. 1900

'Vest Pocket Autographic Kodak' camera, made by Eastman Kodak Co. of Rochester, New York, U.S.A., c. 1914

'Six-20 Kodak Junior' folding camera, by Kodak Ltd. of London

'Super Kinecam' 16 mm cine camera, signed by Ensign Ltd. of London, c. 1930

Camera Lucida with a three-piece telescopic stem on a clamp

Camera lucida with three of six additional lenses, signed by Adie and Son of Edinburgh

'Kodak Instamatic 100' cartridge-load film camera, in a black plastic case, made by Kodak Ltd., 1963

Studio camera body by Birnie of Dundee