sliding body mahogany camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: 1835-1855 in Paris

maker:: Lerebours et Secretan

Mahogany camera with fixed front panel and sliding rear panel extended to 6 1/2 cm at front to accommodate the longer focal length lens. With ground glass screen holder, one wooden single plate holder with frame 4 1/4 x 3 1/4 wet plate. Lens is a Lerebois et Secretan lens, Petzval type F:9 inch, No 3301, not original. Lens cap removed., c,1845

Details

Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/1075

Materials:: glass and mahogany

Measurements:: overall: 220 mm x 410 mm x 185 mm,

type:: camera

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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