Dubroni Daguerreotype Camera

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1864 in Paris
maker:
Jules Andre Gabriel Bourdin

Dubroni camera, 1864. Wooden solid body camera for wet collation process. takes plate 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches, held by springs against an earthenware container, into which sensitizing and processing chemicals can be introduced by a glass pipette (missing). f/4 Dubroni portrait lens No 8896, rack and pinion focusing. Hinged back with orange glass to observe progress of process. With rubber and glass pipet.

Details

Category:
Photographic Technology
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/2353
Materials:
wood (unidentified), brass (copper, zinc alloy), glass, rubber (unidentified), metal (unknown) and vitrious
Measurements:
overall: 170 mm x 152 mm x 210 mm,
type:
plate camera and box camera
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford