. . "The camera used by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe in the late 19th century was a large mahogany beast with brass fittings, which took whole plate glass negatives 6.5 x 8.5.Below is a photo taken over 100 years ago, by him, of 'fisher folk', which I scanned myself about 15 years ago on my first 'photo quality' flatbed scanner." . .