wood view/field

VIew cameras 13 x 18 cm or larger using ground glass, bellow and wood contruction

Royal Ruby Triple Extension | Thornton Pickard

Early 20th century English camera, highly sophisticated and well finished field camera. Extendable bellows up to 70 cm, 18x24 cm format, very easy to assemble and it fits folded into a leather case.

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Paris II | Alfred Brückner

Wooden and ground glass camera from the first half of the 20th century. A very simple type of construction with few movements but still rigid and well finished. Certainly a camera for the amateur photographer when the 13x18 cm format still didn't scare anyone.

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Excelsior | ICA

Sort of ontological type of camera, this is a typical field camera camera with most of the controls this of construction used to offer. It is a 13x18 cm format and offers the possibility to use many different lenses. Probable date is the 1930s

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Collodion camera | maker unknown

–  Collodium Camera | maker unknow | c 1862  – I bought this camera in June 2008 in Bièvres, France, during the annual foire photo. It is a collodion camera having a Darlot Cone Centralisateur lens, both in excellent condition. Collodion, also known as Wet Plate, is a process that produces a glass...

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