Title
Portrait photographer's studio, c1880. Artist: Unknown
Caption
Portrait photographer's studio, c1880. The photographer, with his head under a black cloth, is focusing on his sitter. He is using a plate camera on a tripod. The inverted image of the sitter can be seen on the ground glass screen at the back. The bellows allowed the distance between lens and plate to be adjusted during focusing. From Physics in Pictures by Theodore Eckardt. (London, c1880).
Oxford Science Archive
Date
1880
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images
Reference
HRM19B63_409
Model release
No
License type
Rights managed
Available size
30,0Mb (4,0Mb) / 12,8in x 9,1in / 3849 x 2728 (300dpi)