A Békés Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei 30. (Békéscsaba, 2007)

Gábor Gabriella: Wood-bodied, plate cameras from the prehistory of photography

Gábor Gabriella The first part of this paper is the description of the process camera being the part of the collection of the Munkácsy Mihály Museum (pictures 1-11). It is a large-sized apparatus mountable on tripod with rectangular bellows darkroom, wooden plate holder, ground glass viewing screen and fixed (periscope system) lens. The second part of this paper makes known the description and the restoration of a folding "English-type" field camera (pictures 12-34) with baseboard, insertable plate holder, ground glass viewing screen as well as rack and pinion, doubledraw, narrowing bellows and interchangeable lens. Gábor Gabriella Békés Megyei Múzeumok Igazgatósága H-5600 Békéscsaba, Gyulai út 1. E-mail: gabo@bmmi.hu 374