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Chevalier Chambre à tiroir |
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Photos by Arnaud Saudax text by Arnaud Saudax. From the collection of Arnaud Saudax. Last update 2024-03-28 par Sylvain Halgand.
Manufactured or assembled in France from 1845 to (After) 1845.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 10682
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Chronology of cameras Chevalier
Long before the invention of photography, the Chevalier house was renowned for its optics for microscopy and astronomy. This camera is unbranded but equipped with a lens labeled "Photographe à verres combinés. Inventé par Charles Chevalier, Ingénieur Opticien breveté, Palais Royal 163, Paris."
It is a sliding box camera for the Daguerreotype process, using a copper plate coated with silver measuring 13 x 17 cm (Half plate).²
Boxes for storing unsensitized plates. The one on the left can hold 6 half-plates and 6 quarter-plates. In front, two holders for polishing plates before sensitization.
On the left, a bromine box; on the right, an iodine box. Bromine was used in liquid form, hence the presence of adjusting screws. Iodine was used in the form of flakes by impregnating blotting paper glued to a glass plate, which was then flipped for sensitization.
Daguerreian lens set from "Lerebours et Secrétan in Paris." The small one is a landscape lens (No. 4093). The large one is a portrait lens (No. 8332) of the Petzval type. In the early lenses, diaphragms, in the form of washers, were placed in front of the front lens. Lerebours et Secrétan provided astronomical instruments for the most important observatories of the time.
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