I always have been fascinated by photography.
But with the introduction of the digital camera it all became too easy, too predictable …to me.
So I forced myself to go back to the roots of real analog photography.
Not just by making the photograph itself, but by controlling the entire photographic process.

This brought me back to the middle of the 19th century, to the amazing Collodion wet plate process.
And every single day I feel challenged to refine and improve myself.


For my website please visit : www.alextimmermans.com

Alex Timmermans
Holland

"You don't take a picture, it's given to you"

vrijdag 22 april 2016

Lens owned by Jacob Wothly

I Just recently discovered that a lens I own was previously owned by Jacob Wothly.
Jacob Wothly was a German photographer. His real name was Jacob Woodtlj.
Don't know why he has changed his name but it sounds nice.
 
Jacob invented the Wothlytype back in 1860 which was patented in England in 1864
and in Paris in 1865.
Don't know how it worked but he was using some radioactiv material
combined with collodion which made it able to produce positive pictures.
Here you can find some more information about Jacob Wothly ( sorry it's in German):
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Wothly

The lens itself is exactly the same as the famous Jamin/Datlot cone lenses.
But this one has a tube like end instead of the typical cone.
 
Is anyone actually using this old process?
Would love to know more about it.
 


 
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