old style camera's?

Question

can anyone tell me what kind of a camera would have been used in 1824 to take photograph's

the photograph I am speaking about is still to be seen in one of the country's biggest library's.

thank you both BOB and RUSTSKIPP for your very informed answer's .

Answer 1

Hey Apple,

Interesting question. The Camera Obscura (Latin for Dark room) was a dark box or room with a hole in one end. If the hole was small enough, an inverted image would be seen on the opposite wall. Such a principle was known by thinkers as early as Aristotle (c. 300 BC).

The earliest record of the uses of a camera obscura can be found in the writings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). At about the same period Daniel Barbaro, a Venetian, recommended the camera as an aid to drawing and perspective.


The first cameras were enormous. Athanasius Kircher (1601-1680) in a book written in 1646, described one which consisted of an outer shell with lenses in the centre of each wall, and an inner shell containing transparent paper for drawing; the artist needed to enter by a trapdoor.

Other versions also appeared. Sedan chairs were converted, and tent-type cameras were also in use - even up the beginning of the nineteen hundreds. Then smaller, portable ones were made. Thus the camera obscura, as it came to be known, became a popular aid to sketching.

Another aid to drawing, but which worked in a different way, was the Camera Lucida, designed in 1807.

To give some idea of costs in the earliest days of photography, it is known that in 1839 Fox Talbot bought several instruments including a camera obscura for seven pounds fifteen shillings (£7.75). At that time the typical servant's wage would have averaged between ten and twenty pounds per year.

Answer 2

In 1824 Joseph "Nicéphore" Niépce ( 1765-1833) created the first semi-permanent images using glass plates coated with a dispersion of silver salts in bitumen.

Answer 3

Louius Daguerre was the only one who could answer that.
He propably started portrait photography around 1830 so as to 1824 you're guess is as good as anyones

Answer 4

It was still experimental!

# 1814
Joseph Nicéphore Niépce achieves first photographic image with camera obscura - however, the image required eight hours of light exposure and later faded.
# 1837
Daguerre’s first daguerreotype - the first image that was fixed and did not fade and needed under thirty minutes of light exposure.
# 1840
First American patent issued in photography to Alexander Wolcott for his camera.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Might be the old Box Brownie

Answer 7

i'll give you a clue, it wasnt a digital one!

Answer 8

a big @ss one