Plate camera

Houghton: Daguerreotype Tropical Sliding Box - c1845. 4¾x4¾'' exposures, daguerreotype camera. One of the earliest Houghton cameras licensed by Daguerre.

Manufactured about 1920 by Voigtländer & Sohn AG of Braunschweig, Germany. This is just the coolest little camera! Afolding plate camera using a 6x9cm film back. It has a Voigtländer Anastigmat Voigtar 105mm f/6.3 lens set in a a IBSOR DDR shutter made by AGC and having the AGC trademark (a symbol of three half-open shutter blades). It has T, B and speeds from 1 second to 1/125 sec. The camera has a spring loaded bed, full twist and rise for the front lens assembly (with indents at…

Fotógrafo, 1870.

Since 1851 professional photographers used these cameras in their studios, (once the process of glass plate negatives had been perfected).

Historic Mathew Brady Studio Camera, circa Early 1860s. Quite possibly the wet plate camera he used to - Available at 2011 Nov 30 - Dec 1 Americana &...

circa 1880 pb

Coverting a Polaroid camera to a wet plate holder is not so difficult. Take the film holder and convert it to an excellent wet plate holder.

Made in Germany

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I had been mesmerized by wet plate photography for at least a couple years. It wasn’t until I saw a post by Giles Clement about making a camera in 10 hours with his friends that I felt inspired to…

This rare and exceptional, tropical camera is made of teak wood, which has great damp and heat resisting properties. The corners of

Wet plate photographer Ian Ruhter has received a good deal of attention over the past year for using a custom camera van to create giant collodion process

JapanCameraHunter on Instagram: “In my humble opinion the top plate on the Nikon 28Ti is one of the most alluring of any camera. The designer was clearly a fan of watches.…”

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Antique Camera: Beautiful 1890s unknown American camera in the 1/2-plate daguerrian format. Whoever made this knew what they were doing and what they wanted. There are no miscellaneous or unnecessary construction points. Some craftsmen working for major makers (i.e. Anthony, American Optical, Scovill, and Rochester Optical) built their own personal cameras. This camera has traits from all of those competing makers. This could be such an example.

Polaroid 20x24'' Camera. The biggest 'instant' camera I know of is Polaroid's 20x24'' behemot. It's 1.5 meters tall and weighs in at 106 kilos. The Polaroid paper sheets used in this camera is, as the name implies, 20 x 24'', which equals 50x60 cm. Keeping in mind that the aforementioned 135 film is a mere 3.6 x 2.4 cm, it's easy to see why such a larger-than-life camera would be capable of producing prints of far superior detail compared to smaller formats.

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