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Photographic camera

Detheux Bulard1850/1850

National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia
Terrassa (Barcelona), Spain

Photographic camera by daguerreotypes system made in Paris ca. the year 1850. It retains the mechanisms, crystals and slow original. The body type of camera is drawer or "tiroir", the approach will produce by displacement of the top on the platform that sustains it. The lens is a primitive type Petzval with washer stop system for the diaphragm . This machine, like most of those used to make daguerreotypes, was subsequently used by the system to photograph wet collodion..

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  • Title: Photographic camera
  • Creator: Detheux Bulard
  • Date: 1850/1850
  • Location: Paris
National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

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