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| − | '''A. Darlot''' was a French optical company, founded in the 1850s as Jamin-Darlot in Paris.<ref>[http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?f=popup&id=102781&_ssl=off#102781 | + | '''A. Darlot''' was a French optical company, founded in the 1850s as Jamin-Darlot in Paris.<ref>[http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?f=popup&id=102781&_ssl=off#102781 Camera with Darlot lens, about 1855], for quarter-plate ([[wet-collodion|''wet''-plate]]) photographs, sold at the [http://www.westlicht-auction.com/index.php?id=94204&acat=94204&offset=1&lang=3 November 2007 Westlicht Photographica Auction] in Vienna.</ref> In 1860 it became Darlot. It made camera lenses, marked "Darlot, Opticien" or "Darlot Paris" and the initials "AD" of A. Darlot, the letters crossed as logo. |
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A. Darlot was a French optical company, founded in the 1850s as Jamin-Darlot in Paris.[1] In 1860 it became Darlot. It made camera lenses, marked "Darlot, Opticien" or "Darlot Paris" and the initials "AD" of A. Darlot, the letters crossed as logo.
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| Darlot landscape lens image by Couch Commando (Image rights) |
Lenses
- Landscape lens
- Petzval (portrait) lens[2]
- Combinable lens kit[3][4]
- Magic lantern lens
Notes
- ↑ Camera with Darlot lens, about 1855, for quarter-plate (wet-plate) photographs, sold at the November 2007 Westlicht Photographica Auction in Vienna.
- ↑ Darlot Petzval lens sold at the May 2004 Westlicht auction.
- ↑ Combinable lens set, about 1885: brass lens barrel with rack-and-pinion focusing, with fixed lens elements, and three extra elements that combine with it to make a range of focal lengths; with Waterhouse stops. Sold at the November 2004 Westlicht auction.
- ↑ Darlot combinable lens set, about 1890 with six exchangeable elements, sold at the November 2006 Westlicht auction.
Links
- Darlot portrait lens of the 1860s at The Civil War Reenactors [1]
- Jamin-Darlot name variants in The Woodandbrass Archives [2]
