Darlot

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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

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  • Aplanétique Symétrique (Rapid Rectilinear), as pictured here.
  • Objectif d'Artiste (artist's lens), c.1890; aluminium-barrelled soft-focus landscape lens with focusing screw and iris diaphragm, made for photographer Constant Puyo[2][3]
  • Hemispherique; a brass-barrelled 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

  1. Camera with Darlot lens, about 1855, for quarter-plate (wet-plate) photographs, sold at the twelfth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in November 2007.
  2. Objectif d'Artiste sold at the sixteenth Westlicht Auction, in December 2009.
  3. Puyo at French Wikipedia
  4. Hemispherique sold at the 31st Westlicht auction, in June 2017.
  5. Darlot Petzval lens sold at the fifth Westlicht auction, in April 2004.
  6. Stereo pair of Petzval lenses sold at the 21st Westlicht Auction, in May 2012.
  7. Seen on an Orthoscope (Tourtin) SLR camera, c.1885, at the 34th Leitz Photographica Auction, in June 2019.
  8. 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.
  9. Darlot combinable lens set, about 1890 with six exchangeable elements, sold at the tenth Westlicht auction, in November 2006.

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