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 Alphonse Darlot, the letters crossed as a logo.
Lenses
- Aplanétique Symétrique (Rapid Rectilinear), as pictured here.
- Objectif d'Artiste (artist's lens), c.1890; aluminium-barreled soft-focus landscape lens with focusing screw and iris diaphragm, made for photographer Constant Puyo[2][3]
- Hemispherique; a brass-barreled wide-angle lens with three fixed stops (like Waterhouse stops but captive; the ones not required are swung out of the way)[4]
- Landscape lens
- Nemo anastigmat, as pictured here.
- Petzval (portrait) lens[5][6]
- Planigraphe[7]
- Combinable lens 'trousse' kit[8][9]
- Magic lantern lens
Notes
- ↑ Camera with Darlot lens, about 1855, for quarter-plate (wet-plate) photographs, sold at the twelfth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2007.
- ↑ Objectif d'Artiste sold at the sixteenth Westlicht Auction, in December 2009.
- ↑ Puyo at French Wikipedia
- ↑ Hemispherique sold at the 31st Westlicht auction, in June 2017.
- ↑ Darlot Petzval lens sold at the fifth Westlicht auction, in April 2004.
- ↑ Stereo pair of Petzval lenses sold at the 21st Westlicht Auction, in May 2012.
- ↑ Seen on an Orthoscope (Tourtin) SLR camera, c.1885, at the 34th Leitz Photographica Auction, in June 2019.
- ↑ 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 sixth Westlicht auction, in November 2004.
- ↑ Darlot combinable lens set, about 1890 with six exchangeable elements, sold at the tenth Westlicht auction, in November 2006.
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