Portrait Chambre Automatique de Bertsch

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Adolphe Bertsch (Firm)
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Chambre Automatique de Bertsch (portrait lens)
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1860
FILM TYPE: wet plate
IMAGE SIZE: 3¼ x 3½in.
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  wet plate
  telephoto
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Petzval portrait lens

NOTES:
  Brass body camera with longer body than standard Bertsch camera to
  accomodate longer focus portrait lens. -TG

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: B5154.00004

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 136.//