R760.00001
Räderkanone
OBJECT TYPE: Camera
NOTES:
OBJECT IDENTIFIER: R760.00001
BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE:
Coe, Brian. --Cameras: From Daguerreotypes to Instant Pictures.--
Gothenburg, Sweden: Nordbok, 1978. pp 181-2.//
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MANUFACTURER: Romain Talbot, GmbH
NATIONALITY: German
PLACE MANUFACTURED: Germany, Berlin
OBJECT NAME VARIATION: Talbot's Ferrotype Cannon
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1912
FILM TYPE: ferrotype plate
IMAGE SIZE: 1 in. diameter
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: ferrotype
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: f/4 portrait lens
"Even more bizarre was Talbot's Räderkanone camera of 1912, which
looked like a field gun, right down to the large wheels. The barrel
contained an f/4 portrait lens, and the 1 in. (25mm) diameter plates
were processed in a tank underneath the "gun". Coe, 1978.
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 223
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