I have recently been given a british aircraft camera lens unit. Machined of solid brass, I have no clue as to its identity apart from it was used in an aircraft of some kind! I understand the prefix ’14A’ is an RAF number? The only parts number on it is: 14A/3385
Could anybody please point me in the right direction? I’m guessing it could be from a recon craft of some kind, or perhaps a bomber (used for taking pics of raid damage). I’ll post pictures if i can borrow a camera. All help greatly appreciated!
By: Airspeed Horsa - 22nd January 2007 at 16:00
Thanks for the help:D
By: Bager1968 - 22nd January 2007 at 01:02
An enlarger is normally used in the printing phase… the negative in placed in the enlarger, which projects a focused, much bigger image onto the print paper, which is then developed to bring out the image.
By: Airspeed Horsa - 21st January 2007 at 20:23
Cheers! You can only tell its brass when you look at the back – it has a matt black finish. Enlarger lens? For ‘blowing up’ images?
By: TonyA - 21st January 2007 at 20:13
The internet says that’s an enlarger lens: http://www.aircraft-cockpits.com/14a_camera_equipment.asp though the picture shown doesn’t look like brass
Tony Andrews
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January 21, 2007 at 7:22 pm