A 5 x 7 inch wood-body sliding-box reflex camera obscura (lacks mirror and screen) with hinged top, a 2½ inch diameter single meniscus lens and wood lens cover.
細節
A 5 x 7 inch wood-body sliding-box reflex camera obscura (lacks mirror and screen) with hinged top, a 2½ inch diameter single meniscus lens and wood lens cover.
來源
The estate of the late Cyril Permutt.
出版
Permutt (1976), Collecting Old Cameras, p. 146.
更多詳情
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拍品專文
Permutt describes this as an 'early 19th-century camera'. It would be more accurate to describe the object as a camera obscura as there is no provision for a plate-holder.