Heritage cameras and heritage photographers
Today, good-quality digital cameras are at everyone’s disposal, as professional or semiprofessional devices and as a tool integrated in our smartphones. But at the beginning of the era of photography, it was not the case: heritage cameras were complex and scientific-based devices. Enjoy a gallery of heritage cameras and heritage photographers at work!
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Three foot camera with accordion lens. At the back there was revealed. The metal structure of the front also allowed reproduction of photographs. House used by the minuters.
Camera Canary bird.x000D 1934_x000D_
Càmera de campanya o de camp, plegable, per a plaques de vidre de format 9x12 cm o 6x9 cm. Es tracta d'un aparell realitzat de manera artesanal que segueix el model de les càmeres franceses per a amateurs de finals del segle XIX.
New American aerial camera which has 10 lenses and is the worlds largest camera .x000D 1935
Càmera reflex SLR amb objectiu de 50 mm
Cannes camera twins .x000D Twin brothers at work with their cameras at Cannes . Their activities arouse considerable interest in view of the strong resemblance one bears to the other .x000D 10 April 1922
Joan Bert, with her camera photographing, on a garbage cart, Barcelona.
A young woman sitting on a park bench, preparing to take a picture. (awers)
A photographer portrays the Association of the United States of America, Friends of Spanish Democracy, who has come to deliver Lluís Companys, President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, four ambulances destined at the front. Patio de los Naranjos del Pala…
Photo camera for wet collodion plates. The dimensions and weight of this device made it suitable only for use in a photographic studio. Its large lens, by the prestigious Austrian brand Voigtländer & John, allows one to capture bright, high-quality im…
Portrait of a photographer with the camera on a path.
Portrait of a photographer with the camera on a path.
Self-portrait of Ramon Puig and Marcó with the camera to photograph.
Workshop photographer, Martí Massafont. Portrait of the photographer with a camera. Girona.
Fotògraf amb la seva càmera.
Self-portrait of Salvador Crescenti Miró with a camera. It accompanies it his son Salvador Crescenti Gironella.
Dead Nature at Unal Gallery. Photographic camera on a tripod next to a tablet with paints and brushes and other products.
Scene from the shooting of the film The Man of the Sack. Josep Mir in the camera shooting a scene in the Plaza de los Ledoneros, where two children intervene
Travel camera for 24 x 18 cm plates. Since the early days of photography, several attempts have been made to reduce the bulk and weight of cameras and make them more portable. The solution was provided by the use of a folding leather bellows (soufflet, in…
9x12 cm box camera for daguerreotypes. Focusing by shifting. The lens is adjustable with a rack-and-pinion. Includes a plate with frosted glass for focusing the image and a plate for placing the daguerreotype. The process of creating and subsequently deve…