Update on "Hat"hunter

About 2 months ago i was contacted by a journalist of the regional newspaper Eindhovens dagblad, Tonny Peeters.
He got my business card from a couple who watched us
making "hat"lines a few weeks before.

He asked me if it was possible to see this process life.
At that time we were working on the idea of "Hat"hunter and we made
an appointment on a Monday morning in the forest of the Heeze castle.

 

While unpacking my car and setting up my new ice fishing tent the photographer
of the newspaper came by and made some nice pictures.
The journalist also arranged a film crew (which was a total surprise for me...).

 

He promised me to write a nice article and it would be published within a few weeks.

Well, it took a little longer, but this morning the article was published including the link to the movie they made.

At 07:00 this morning i grabbed the newspaper out of my post box to
see how it looked like.
You can imagine i am extremely happy with this article and film.

So Tonny Peeters ( journalist), Jurriaan Balke (photographer), Filmcrew of ED and Ferry van der Vliet,
many thanks for making this possible !!!

 

The link to the movie : http://www.ed.nl/regio/veldhoven/11933455/Oerlenaar-is-gek-van-collodiumfotografie.ece

"Scrooge"

 

 

 

Black glass ambrotype

18x24cm

Hermagis petzval 420mm 4.5 wide open

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/