Nice find at fair

Today is visited a very large collecting fair in Utrecht, Holland.

I hoped to find some wet plate related things like camera's, lenses etc.
But couldn't find anything like that.

BUT, i found something extremely rare.
A beautiful small mahogany box containing a kristal glass perfume bottle and a ambrotype.
Even the original key came with it and all is in excellent shape.

 

 

 

Fabulous book about antique French optics.

A little bump for a fantastic book.

During my last visit at Bievres i bought myself a fabulous book about antique French lenses.

This book is written by Corrado D’Agostini.

It contains almost 400 pages covered with loads of information about the most famous French optics.

Including many pictures. Names like: Berthiot, Hermagis, Darlot, Jamin etc.

You will also find many background information about the makers and technical information about the optics.

Also every documented lens has it's serialnumber published.

Unfortunately not the year of build. Pity, but you can't have it all

If you are interested in Old photographic French lenses, this is a book you need to have in your collection!

21x30x3cm !!

ISBN 88-8341-491-6

His website: http://www.oldphotographiclenses.com/

Fotografica fair at Nieuwegein

Coming Sunday, november 18th, there will be the anual fotografica fair at Nieuwegein.

About 200 tables filled with all kinds of photography related stuff.

So a must for collectors etc.

 

I will have 2 tables filled with collodion related things.

Nothing for sale, but just to show the beauty of the collodion process.

 

So if you have the time, just hop by.

Open from 11:00-16:00 hours

 

See you coming sunday !

 

More information you can find at the Fotografcia website:

http://www.fotografica.nl/

 

 

Fixing a 20x20" black glass ambrotype

The fixing stage of a 20x20" ambrotype i made a few days ago.
it's like unpacking a nice gift everytime again....