Antique Wooden Daguerreotype Camera
Antique Wooden Daguerreotype Camera displayed in the Payana Car Museum, Srirangapatna, Karnataka, India.
" Front View"
"Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary"
As early as1840, the Calcutta Firm of Thacker and Company was importing and advertising the sale of Deguerreotype Camera in the daily paper, "Friend of India'
Antique Wooden Daguerreotype Camera
Antique Wooden Daguerreotype Camera displayed in the Payana Car Museum, Srirangapatna, Karnataka, India.
" Front View"
"Daguerreotype was the first publicly available photographic process, widely used during the 1840s and 1850s. To make the image, a daguerreotypist polished a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish; treated it with fumes that made its surface light-sensitive; exposed it in a camera for as long as was judged to be necessary"
As early as1840, the Calcutta Firm of Thacker and Company was importing and advertising the sale of Deguerreotype Camera in the daily paper, "Friend of India'