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| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://web.telia.com/~u66012676/giroux_camera.htm Le Daguerreotype] (English) at Swedish photography history site [http://web.telia.com/~u66012676/Homepage2002-10.index.htm] |
*[http://www.deutsches-museum.de/sammlungen/ausgewaehlte-objekte/meisterwerke-iv/kamera/kamera-grossansicht/ Le Daguerreotype] - original camera in the [http://www.deutsches-museum.de "Deutsches Museum"] Munich (German) | *[http://www.deutsches-museum.de/sammlungen/ausgewaehlte-objekte/meisterwerke-iv/kamera/kamera-grossansicht/ Le Daguerreotype] - original camera in the [http://www.deutsches-museum.de "Deutsches Museum"] Munich (German) | ||
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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
- Le Daguerreotype (English) at Swedish photography history site [1]
- Le Daguerreotype - original camera in the "Deutsches Museum" Munich (German)
