Difference between revisions of "Alphonse Giroux"
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'''Alphonse Giroux''' made the first series production of a photographic camera. | '''Alphonse Giroux''' made the first series production of a photographic camera. | ||
| − | He was a relative of [[Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre]] who had improved the photographic methods of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and his son Isidore Niépce by finding a new basic material, i.e. iodized polished silver-plated copper-plates, a new developing method with | + | He was a relative of [[Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre]] who had improved the photographic methods of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and his son Isidore Niépce by finding a new basic material, i.e. iodized polished silver-plated copper-plates, a new developing method with mercury vapour, and as fixing method a hot salt water bath. Since that was a total redesign of Niepce's method Isodore Niépce accepted a treaty that the invention should be named after Daguerre. The French government bought it from them. A law given by the French Parliament said that the invention should be given to the world for free. |
Daguerre himself designed a solid wooden camera with achromatic lens. Giroux constructed it an made a series of that camera. | Daguerre himself designed a solid wooden camera with achromatic lens. Giroux constructed it an made a series of that camera. | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| − | [http://www.marillier.nom.fr/collodions/pghNoticeProces.html the copyright lawsuit of 1839 about a "brochure explicative du daguerréotype"] | + | [http://www.marillier.nom.fr/collodions/pghNoticeProces.html the copyright lawsuit of 1839 about a "brochure explicative du daguerréotype" (French)] |
| + | [http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ausstell/meister4/kamera.htm Le Daguerreotype - original camera in the "Deutsches Museum" Munich (German)] | ||
[[Category:camera makers]] | [[Category:camera makers]] | ||
Revision as of 20:42, 31 August 2006
Alphonse Giroux made the first series production of a photographic camera.
He was a relative of Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre who had improved the photographic methods of Joseph Nicéphore Niépce and his son Isidore Niépce by finding a new basic material, i.e. iodized polished silver-plated copper-plates, a new developing method with mercury vapour, and as fixing method a hot salt water bath. Since that was a total redesign of Niepce's method Isodore Niépce accepted a treaty that the invention should be named after Daguerre. The French government bought it from them. A law given by the French Parliament said that the invention should be given to the world for free.
Daguerre himself designed a solid wooden camera with achromatic lens. Giroux constructed it an made a series of that camera.
cameras
Le Daguerreotype (1839)
address
- Alph. Giroux et Cie.
- rue du Coq St Honoré
- Paris
Links
the copyright lawsuit of 1839 about a "brochure explicative du daguerréotype" (French) Le Daguerreotype - original camera in the "Deutsches Museum" Munich (German)
