Plate Camera

ICA Toska 215 folding camera (9x12cm plates) - c1910-1926.

This article discusses how Joesph Niepce was the first person to create a photographic image. The article states, "Joseph Nicéphore Niépce used a portable camera obscura to expose a pewter plate coated with bitumen to light." Of course, Niepce's process for achieving this accomplishment is outlined on page 146 of the textbook.

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…

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.

Maker: Perken, Son and Rayment, London Nationality: UK Medium: apparatus Size: Location: UK Object No. 2009.006 Shelf: room Publication: Other Collections: Provenance: Christie's South Kensington, Cameras & Opitical Toys, 9/6/05, lot 375 Rank: 626 Notes: To view our archive organized by themes and subjects, visit: OUR COLLECTIONS For information about reproducing this image, visit: THE HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAPHY ARCHIVE

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

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Kevin Klein has a hobby of miniaturizing Victorian technology, and recently he made the world's smallest wet plate camera using 1/32-inch plywood and

During past few weeks I have been working on a new picture I had in mind. This time I already knew the title: "The Rain Maker." It's a picture made with