Photographic camera and laboratory Dubroni

Institution

Ajuntament de Girona

Object description:

Camera laboratory. Dubroni. Photographie de poche. Camera for wet-plate collodion process. Plates format: 5 x 5 cm for a round picture about 4 cm diameter. Lens: Petzval, made by Darlot f = 3. 7 / 60mm. It includes laboratory. The first known laboratory camera was Dubroni Le Photographe de Poche (France 1860). This camera makes it possible to develop the photograph immediately after it had been taken. A more modern model of this kind would be the Polaroid.

Object/Work type:

cameras

Location:

Gerona - Spain

Object measurements:

13 x 9 x 11 cm

Production

Bourdin, Jules (inventor);Maison Dubroni (manufacturer)

Date: 1860 ca.

Place: France

Subject/theme:

cameras, photography

Resource

Rights Type: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 

Date Taken: 1996

Record

Rights Type: CC0

Source: Ajuntament de Girona

Identifier: MC-MP02138