Langer & Co daylight enlarging camera
Photographic Equipment
1906
1906
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Wood, metal, leather and glass daylight enlarger. The object collapses down into a self contained wooden box, held shut with metal clasps. Also has small metal feet attached to outside which can be used to angle the enlarger towards the sun while in use. When extended the enlarger has 2 set of leather bellows which extend towards the middle, thus creating a light tight conduit for sunlight to pass through a photograhpic negative, through a lens, and projected onto a piece of sensitised paper, thus creating a photographic print.
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| Title | Langer & Co daylight enlarging camera (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Wood and metal construction, with leather bellows and a glass photographic lens. |
| Brief description | Daylight enlarging camera, Langer & Co, Vienna, 1906. Folding type daylight enlarger made of wood, leather, brass. Extra rapid aplanat lens, f/8 aperture, sliding plate shutter. 9x12cm negative holder with reducers for 6x9cm and 5x4cm. Ground glass focussing screen and negative holder. In original cardboard carton. Owned by the photographer and chemist F.A Paneth. |
| Physical description | Wood, metal, leather and glass daylight enlarger. The object collapses down into a self contained wooden box, held shut with metal clasps. Also has small metal feet attached to outside which can be used to angle the enlarger towards the sun while in use. When extended the enlarger has 2 set of leather bellows which extend towards the middle, thus creating a light tight conduit for sunlight to pass through a photograhpic negative, through a lens, and projected onto a piece of sensitised paper, thus creating a photographic print. |
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| Production type | Mass produced |
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| Object history | Owned by photographer and chemist F.A Paneth |
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| Other number | 2094 - RPS identifier - inventory no. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | RPS.1-2024 |
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| Record created | January 8, 2024 |
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