The History of Photography: Cameras, Pictures, PhotographersDepicts the early cameras and the images they produced, and describes the contributions of pioneering photographers and photographic equipment engineers. |
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12 plates 35 mm film 9 cm Agfa Agfa-Gevaert Foto-Histo Agfa-Gevaert Foto-Historama Angle of view Anschütz Baldus Berlin Format BOX CAMERA CAMERA For roll CAMERA Retractable CAMERA With bellows CAMERA Without baseboard circa 1900 Manufacturer color photograph Contax Daguerre Daguerreotype Daguerreotype Camera DETECTIVE CAMERA Dresden Format Eastman Kodak Ernemann Ferrotype Focal-plane shutter Focal-plane shutter speed FOLDING CAMERA Frankfurt Format George Eastman House glass plate Graflex graph grapher invention Krügener later Leica Leica III lenses London Format Lumière MAGAZINE CAMERA method MINIATURE CAMERA Nadar negative Niepce Nonretractable painter painting PANORAMIC CAMERA Paris Format patented PHOTO JUMELLE Polaroid portraits posure RAPID-DEVELOPMENT CAMERA Rochester Format roll film Salomon self-erecting lens silver SINGLE-LENS REFLEX CAMERA SMALL-FORMAT CAMERA SPECIAL TYPE SPECIAL-PURPOSE CAMERA spring mechanism Steichen STEREO CAMERA Stereoscopic Stieglitz STRUT CAMERA Talbot Talbotype tographs tures TWIN-LENS REFLEX CAMERA unknown Format Vienna Format view finder Voigtländer wet-collodion process Zeiss Ikon