Enjalbert
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Théophile-Ernest Enjalbert was a camera-maker in Paris in the late nineteenth century. He is noted particularly as the maker of a hand-camera for miniature dry plates, in the shape of a revolver; this is however a rare and valuable model, of which few were made. Enjalbert also made other innovative cameras, which were undoubtedly more significant at the time.
Cameras
- Le Touriste, about 1880; a wooden-bodied field camera for eight 13x18 cm dry plates in a magazine back.[1][2][3]
- Photo-Revolver de Poche, about 1882; pistol-shaped camera for a magazine of ten miniature dry plates.
- Automatic ferrotype camera, about 1889; a coin-operated camera for automated production of portraits.[4][5]
Notes
- ↑ Le Touriste serial no. 1091, with Rapid Rectilinear lens, sold at the fourth Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 22 November 2003. The auctioneer's notes state that the camera was made for Enjalbert by a maker named Prevel.
- ↑ Le Touriste 13x18 cm camera, serial no. 1201, with Derogy lens, sold at the sixth Westlicht auction, on 6 November 2004.
- ↑ Le Touriste serial no. 1203, with Rapid Rectilinear lens and front roller shutter, sold at the eleventh Westlicht auction, on 26 May 2007.
- ↑ Swiss Patent 1422 of 1889, Appareil photographique automatique granted to Théophile-Ernest Enjalbert, describing a ferrotype camera with automated development of the plate, to be coin-operated; at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
- ↑ Londe, Albert (1889) La Photographie Automatique, article in Nature magazine, describing the automatic camera, due to be shown at the Paris Exhibition Universelle of that year; reproduced in Mémoire Photographique Champenoise (journal of the activities of the Centre Régional de la Photographie de Champagne-Ardenne)(archived), No. 9, December 2009, p48. (Text in French, with several engravings).
