Dandycam
The Dandycam Automatic Camera is a box-form camera made by Butcher in London, from about 1913.[1] The body is wooden, with leatherette covering. It makes photographs on one-inch diameter ferrotype button plates. Twelve can be loaded in a magazine in the left-hand side of the camera (apparently in daylight).
Despite its simple appearance, the Dandycam is a single-lens reflex camera. The image from the taking lens is reflected by a mirror onto a yellow viewing screen on the top of the camera.[2] The shutter release lifts the mirror. Like most ferrotype cameras, the Dandycam incorporates a small developing tank.[3] After exposure, pulling a slider at the rear of the plate magazine changes the plate and drops the exposed one into the tank, containing a combined developer and fixer solution.[4] the finished (positive) plate then requires only rinsing with water, and allowing to dry.
The camera has an achromatic lens,[4] and no exposure adjustments or focusing.
Notes
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p171.
- ↑ Dandycam at EarlyPhotography.
- ↑ Dandycam; the camera and its developing tank, plus original box, sold in September 2006 by Auction Team Breker in Cologne.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Advertisement for the Dandycam by Société du Franceville in Paris, offering the camera, ferrotype plates, developer/fixer in powder or liquid form, and medallions for mounting the finished plates; at Sylvain Halgand's Collection Appareils
Links
- Dandycam sold at the nineteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 28 May 2011.
