Dubroni
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Maison Dubroni was a camera maker in Paris in the nineteenth century. Despite the Italian-sounding name, the company was owned by Jules Bourdin (Dubroni is an anagram of his name; a note on an auction lot at Westlicht states that his father did not want the family name associated with his photographic inventions.[1]
Cameras
Dubroni is best known for a range of cameras allowing sensitisation, development and fixing of wet collodion plates inside the camera. These are the Appareils Dubroni No. 1 - No. 6 (each seems also to have had its own name; the cited example at Westlicht is a No. 1, identified in the box lid as Photographie de Poche[1]).
Other known cameras:
- Photo-Eclair (concealed camera to be worn under a waiscoat, taking five 4x4 cm photographs on a single circular plate; about 1886)[2]
- Photo-Sport (strut-folding plate camera with unpleated cloth 'bellows', about 1889)[3]
- Folding field cameras (conventional wooden, bellows-focusing cameras)[4]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dubroni Photographie de Poche outfit: camera for 4 cm round exposures on 5 cm square plates, with Dubroni Petzval lens and glass interior lining, to allow sensitisation and development of collodion plates inside the camera, sold at the November 2003 Westlicht Photographica Auction; several excellent photographs.
- ↑ Photo-Eclair sold at the May 2006 Westlicht auction.
- ↑ 13x18 cm Photo-Sport sold at the November 2002 Westlicht auction.
- ↑ Folding field camera outfit, about 1900; 13x18 cm camera with Darlot lens mounted on a front roller-blind shutter, and with an outfit of chemical bottles, plate-processing dishes etc., sold at the May 2012 Westlicht auction.
