New Vue 4x5

Newton New Vue 4x5

Newton New-Vue 4x5 is a large format plate view camera made by Newton, Los Angeles, USA, and produced about 1947. The Soviet view camera Vostok was probably a copy of the New Vue 4x5.

Specifications

• The camera could be a sort of hybrid of press and view cameras.
• Format: 9x12cm (4x5") plate
• Lens: Kodak Anastigmat 162mm f/4.5, interchangeable front lens board for other lenses
• Shutter: Kodak Supermatic #3 shutter, speeds T,B,1-200
• Bellows: bi-rail view
• Rotating back Rapid
• Front focus micro focus art rear
• Built-in handle on the side for hand-holding, but full view camera movements
• Body: all metal; gray enamel nickel trim

Newton New Vue 4x5 VC2

Links

• in Large Format Photography [1] [2]
• in Leica Users Forum
• in The Photo Forum