wood view/field

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

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.

...

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

...

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...

...