Collection Cameras
Gallery restructured from historical documents.
Amateur
Actinometer and keen hiker, a "friend of nature" -- a combination that was repeated very often despite the weight of the equipment.
1/1000 seg.
Ottomar Anschütz and his focal-plane shutter (1891). In the photograph, Goerz-Ango cameras with Goerz lenses. The supplementary photographs were taken by my father in the 1920s.
Kodak Petite
Bold choices driven by the potential market. Girls too were beginning to have their own cameras.
Top hat
Bantam Special, one of the boldest Art Deco-style cameras, together with a period Flashgun and accompanied by cheerful young women. Ektar f 1:2, 45 mm. Compur Rapid shutter.
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Minimum Palmos
The Minimum Palmos by Ica is a simple, very versatile and easy-to-use camera. The photograph shows this 6.5×9 format camera with a double plate holder, a filmpack adapter, and a magazine plate holder. The supplementary photograph is a football scene taken by my father in the 1920s.
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The Naturalist
Auto Graflex Junior with Tessar F 2.7 lens. A suitable kit for amateur macro photography. Allows quick lens changes via an iris-type retaining diaphragm. The supplementary photograph was taken by my father.
Kodak Bullet
Bullet No. 4 Special 1899 with an unusual wooden holder for roll film use and a removable ground-glass screen.
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5 beauties
Exquisite ladies and an exquisite camera.
Brownie Decó
Art Deco also influenced camera aesthetics. These three Brownies are a fine example.
Vest Pocket
This image is part of a series of photographs I made for the Kodak-Spain calendar on the occasion of the Kodak Centenary 1888-1988.
Cartridge Kodak
This image is part of a series of photographs I made for the Kodak-Spain calendar on the occasion of the Kodak Centenary 1888-1988.
Kodak in black
Folding Pocket Kodak No. 1A in a very sober setting. A black Kodak album with bas-relief, Bausch & Lomb lenses and aged glass plates.
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Gaumont Collection
A great French brand, a mirror of the "grandeur française" of times past. The cameras are: Block-notes and the Spido-Grand Prix 1900 by L.Gaumont & Cie, Paris.
Sigriste
