Studio camera on stand

Studio camera on stand is held by Herman Ottó Museum. Museum description: Studio camera on stand with Voigtländer lens (N° 229330; DYNAR 24 cm). The body of the old studio camera consists of a baseboard and attached front and rear standards connected by a light-tight bellows. The baseboard, front, and rear standards are made of polished rosewood. The rectangular front standard holds the easily interchangeable lens board; the rear standard, with its guide rails, receives the ground glass focusing screen frame or the plate holder containing the photosensitive plate. Coarse distance adjustment was carried out by sliding the two parts of the baseboard together or apart, while fine focusing was achieved by moving the front or rear standard (via a rack-and-pinion drive). In order to eliminate perspective distortions, the rear standard could be shifted or tilted along the horizontal and vertical axes. The camera's stand is also made of polished rosewood, the columned st The museum record gives material recorded as wood; metal; glass. These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.