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    After your registration and your presentation in a first message, you will be able to access to all of the forum messages. You can then request identifications or estimates. all for free.
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    Camera Trade Shows calendar

    European calendar for Camera Trade Shows, expo. You can add your own dates.
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  • Cameras

    cameras classified by brand

    • Acari à Avant
    • Balcar à Butler
    • Cabossel et Hude à Chinon
    • Chuo Photo Supply à Curtis
    • Dacora à Durst
    • Earl to Expo
    • Fab. artisanale to Fuyodo Honten
    • Gaf to Gundlach
    • Haco to Huttig
    • I.O.R. to Junka
    • Kafta to Kyocera
    • Kodak
    • L'Epatant to Luxon
    • Mackenstein to Minolta Samsung
    • Minox to Myriaflex
    • Nagel to Noxa
    • Obergassner to Owla
    • PAG to Photo-Presto
    • Photo-Sport to QRS Devry
    • Raaco to Ruberg
    • Sakar to Suter
    • Tahbes to Utility
    • Valette to WZFO
    • Xibei to Zulauf
    Last exist before the bin (just a joke !)

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    Cameras presented by

    • BL
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    • Eric Carlhan
    • GE
    • Jacques Bratières
    • JFL
    • JFW
    • JMB
    • JPF
    • JPH
    • JPHB
    • JPP
    • LT
    • MFL
    • PF
    • PH
    • Renaud Laemmli
    • RP
    • Sylvain Halgand
    • Association du Musée français de la photographie
    • Musée de St-Bonnet
    • Musée de Graçay
  • Lenses, accessories

    Lenses

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    Shutters

    • Old shutters

    accessories

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    • Films
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    • Lab

    Stereoviewers

    • Vintage
    • Viewmaster
    • Lestrade
    • Bruguière
    • Romo
    • Véronèse
    • Colorelief
    • Iso
    • La Meccanoptica Leonardo
    • Mattey

    • Pathéorama

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    Lenses and accessories are presented by the visitors themself.
    All viewers are from my personal collection.

  • Photography

    Misc.

    vintage photos Photo-Plait's story Photo-Porst's story I love cow French polar expedition in 1932 Indochina 1936 Visit german photographic factories in 1937 The war effort of the American photographic industry (WWII)

    About cartes de visites (CDV)

    Under the Second Empire, it was fashionable between middle class people and nobles to exchange small cards with his photo, as it was customary to buy those representing personalities. The launch of this mode is attributed to Disderi. Here, everyone of you can add his own.
    Access to CDVorder by time search with the map

  • Tools

    For users

    • user manuals
    • Photographs taken with vintage cameras
    • Your work
    • Use a vintage camera
    • Which film is to be used?
    • Understanding of EV scales
    • Conversion of sensitivities
    • Aperture numbers : the origins

    For the collector

    • How to describe an old camera
    • Repairers
    • Tools and tips
    • Evolution of the French currency
    • Where to watch old cameras in France, Belgium , Switzerland
  • Gifts
    • Some old ads
    • Packaging and boxes
    • Comparison between some 50 mm lenses with 39 mm screw mount
    • Attraction and use of Russian rangefinder camera
    • History of photography
    • Popular Photography
    • 2012 Playmobil Contest
    • Find in Cyclope
    • Submarine cameras
    • Les Chasseurs d'Images
    • Visit Graçay Camera and Photo museum
    • Visit Porto Photo Museum

    Liens externes

    • Suggested links
    • Berlin 1985-1990
    • Scotland 2012
    • Ecosse 2019
  • Friends of this website
    • Presentation
    • Recensement des publications périodiques consacrées à la photo
    • Old shutters
    • Old lenses

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Made by an old camera
Un photo exemple au hasard

Les appareils du site classés par marques commerciales
Girard           Chronology of cameras
Box
Le Multiplicateur Girard Le Multiplicateur Le Petit Instantané Girard Le Petit Instantané Le Petit Instantané de l'écolier Girard Le Petit Instantané de l'écolier
Chambre
L'Amateur Girard L'Amateur L'Ecolier Perfectionné Girard L'Ecolier Perfectionné L'Excellente Girard L'Excellente L'In-8° Girard L'In-8°
L'Universelle Girard L'Universelle La Britannia Girard La Britannia Le Réductible perfectionné Girard Le Réductible perfectionné Patria Girard Patria
Chambre a joues
Chambre à main instantanée Girard Chambre à main instantanée
Chambre stéréo
Appareil Stéréoscopique Girard Appareil Stéréoscopique
Détective
Chambre Détective Américaine Girard Chambre Détective Américaine Détective idéal Girard Détective idéal Le Coquet Girard Le Coquet Le Détective Perfectionné Girard Le Détective Perfectionné
Le Picador Girard Le Picador Le Radieux Girard Le Radieux Le Radieux Girard Le Radieux Le Radieux Girard Le Radieux
Le Radieux Girard Le Radieux Le Rapide Girard Le Rapide Le Roi Soleil Girard Le Roi Soleil Nouvelle Chambre Détective Américaine Girard Nouvelle Chambre Détective Américaine
Détective stéréo
Chambre à main Stéréoscopique Girard Chambre à main Stéréoscopique
Folding
Le Rêve Girard Le Rêve Le Rêve Girard Le Rêve Le Rêve Girard Le Rêve Le Rêve Girard Le Rêve
Le Rêve Girard Le Rêve Le Rêve 1903 Girard Le Rêve 1903 Le Rêve Ideal 1904/1905 Girard Le Rêve Ideal Le Rêve Ideal 1905 Girard Le Rêve Ideal 1905
Le Rêve Ideal 1907 Girard Le Rêve Ideal 1907 Le Rêve Ideal 1907 Girard Le Rêve Ideal 1907 Le Rêve Ideal 1908 Girard Le Rêve Ideal 1908
Folding stéréo
Le Rêve Stéréoscopique Girard Le Rêve Stéréoscopique
Catalogues
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La collection d'appareils photo anciens et de photographies anciennes by Sylvain Halgand 1999-2021