[rollei_list] Re: OT: Jacob Riis: Shedding Light on NYC's 'Other Half'

  • From: "Richard Knoppow" <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:32:08 -0700


----- Original Message ----- From: "Carlos Manuel Freaza" <cmfreaza@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 6:09 PM
Subject: [rollei_list] Re: OT: Jacob Riis: Shedding Light on NYC's 'Other Half'


De: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
What would a press photog in the 1880s/90s have shot with?
Camera? Lens?

Eric Goldstein


I guess they used some of these cameras and lenses:

http://www.antiquewoodcameras.com/ads.htm

Carlos


Another source is http://www.cameraeccentric.com which has a number of old catalogues. Although most of these are 20th century the earlier ones show cameras representative of those made some twenty years earlier. Remember that glass plates were much used in the 1880s and 1890s. Flexible film made its appearance c.1890 but glass plates continued to be used for a long time afterward.

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