Miniature Chambre Automatique de Bertsch

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Adolphe Bertsch (Firm)
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Chambre Automatique de Bertsch (miniature)
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1861
FILM TYPE: wet plate
IMAGE SIZE: 2 cm diameter
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  wet plate
  subminiature
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: fixed focus achromatic meniscus

NOTES:
  "Bertch's Automatic Camera. Dated by the George Eastman House to 1861,
  this simple apparatus has an achromatic meniscus lens of fixed focus
  (hence the name 'automatic') and tubular finder. Circular view less th
  than 2 cm in diameter (1 in) were taken on 3.7 cm (1 1/2 in) wet
  collodion plates." (Auer, 1975).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: B5154.00003

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Auer, Michel & Tubbs, D.B. (translated & adapted). --The Illustrated History of the Camera from 1839 to the Present.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. pp 109.//