The Al-Vista 5B is an early panoramic roll-film camera produced by the Multiscope & Film Co. It used a swinging lens design to capture wide-format images on roll film, a body type that places it among the turn-of-the-twentieth-century panoramic cameras aimed at landscape and group photography.

UK auction data for the Al-Vista 5B is extremely thin, with a single recorded hammer result at saleroom level of £184 in 1998. With only one verified sale on file there is no meaningful range or median to quote in 2026, so what the camera is worth today depends heavily on condition, completeness and whether the swinging-lens mechanism still functions when it next sells for a price at auction.