Century Studio Camera No. 10A with Wollensak Alphax Lens on Century Master Studio Stand by Graflex, Inc., c. 1927–1940s F2812

This piece is unlike anything we've added to our collection before. Truly a museum-quality piece of equipment.

A complete and fully identified piece of American photographic history. The camera is a Century Studio No. 10A — an 8×10 large format view camera with original red accordion bellows and brass fittings — fitted with a Wollensak Alphax leaf shutter lens, one of the most celebrated large format shutters ever produced. The Alphax was manufactured by the Wollensak Optical Company in Rochester, New York, and built to last — still regarded today as among the most reliable shutters of its era.

The stand bears its original brass maker's plate reading "Century Master Studio Stand, Manufactured by Graflex, Inc., Rochester 8, N.Y., U.S.A." — dating it to the Graflex Inc. period, after the Folmer-Century Division of Eastman Kodak was reorganized in 1927 into the independent Graflex Corporation. Both camera and stand are products of the same Rochester photographic lineage, and were the standard equipment of professional portrait studios for decades, producing 8×10 large-format negatives of extraordinary clarity used for formal portraiture, cabinet cards, and commercial photography.

Original finish and hardware throughout. An exceptional display object with complete provenance.

Stand measures 25" x 26.5" x 50"

Camera measures 24" x 13.5" x 20.5"