2012年9月8日 · The sliding box camera was the first important type of large format camera. When the French Government bought the rights on the new Daguerreotype process in 1839 to give it to the world for granted Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre , the inventor of that first announced viable photographic process , had designed Le Daguerreotype , a box camera ...

2021年7月30日 · First I started collecting numerous photo's of sliding box camera's from the early days of photography in order to get familiar with the different models and their details. At first site most do look quite simple considering they are mainly boxes that slide into each other.

2015年1月22日 · The sliding box camera is a very early camera design dating back to the daguerreotype era, though it can be used for any of the plate photography methods. The all-wood construction lends it to be a beautiful piece of a working photographic tool.

The sliding box camera was the first important type of large format camera. When the French Government bought the rights on the new Daguerreotype process in 1839 to give it to the world for granted Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, the inventor of that first announced viable photographic process...

2010年2月17日 · The camera consists of two wooden boxes, one sliding within the other. The outer box is attached to a baseboard. Focusing is accomplished by sliding the inner box until the scene appears sharp on the rear ground glass screen. There is a round brass nut at the back that serves to lock the boxes into position.

The sliding box camera is a very early camera design dating back to the daguerreotype era, though it can be used for any of the plate photography methods. The all-wood construction lends it to be a beautiful piece of a working photographic tool.

2018年12月24日 · Suitable pedestal for a large format camera. A box with 25 newspaper sized booklets on ‘great photographers’, published by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant years ago… The design of this camera is over a century and a half old. …

This is a “sliding box” camera, a design invented by Louis Daguerre around 1839. The camera consists of two boxes, one sliding within the other. The front box contains the lens, while the rear box holds the photosensitive plate. The photographer focused …

1 wet-plate slide with silver wire at corners. 4" x 5" reducer and 3 ¼" x 4 ¼" reducer. This is a typical English sliding box camera. The wood is Honduran mahogany with dovetail joints. J. F. Shew was established in 1849 but sold few cameras until the Eclipse models in the 1880s. F. Shew was at 89 Newman St. from 1863. J.