The Minox subminiature camera, in its various models, was for years the world’s most widely used spy camera. The ultra-light aluminum shell Minox A/III was produced from 1954 until 1962. Because of its small size (82 x 28 x 16 mm), it was easy to conceal and operate in one hand. It could take excellent…
The stereoscope, which dates from the 1850s, consisted of two prismatic lenses and a wooden stand to hold the stereo card. This type of stereoscope remained in production for a century and there are still companies making them in limited production currently. A stereoscope is a device for viewing a stereoscopic pair of separate images,…
Vageeswari cameras were large format cameras made in India. These were once known as one of the best field cameras in the world. A field camera is a view camera that can be folded in a compact size. Vageeswari cameras were designed and manufactured by Mr. K. Karunakaran, an Alappuzha-based technician. Karunakaran used to help…
The Mamiya C220 was released in 1968 as part of the Mamiya C series of interchangeable lens medium format TLR cameras. It is an improved version of the Mamiya C22. The camera has interchangeable lenses ranging from 55 mm wide-angle to 250 mm telephoto and accepts 120 and 220 roll films. It supports an interchangeable…
Asahi Pentax 6X7 was an SLR medium format system camera for 120 and 220 film. It records images on the film that are 6 cm by 7 cm in size. Lens: Pentax 6X7 with 1: 2.8 90 mm. It received a number of minor engineering updates and cosmetic changes and was renamed as the Pentax…
Jawaharlal Nehru receives a bouquet from Sukumar Menon during a function held at Teen Murti Bhavan, Delhi, in 1959. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of India and a central figure in Indian politics before and after independence.
The daguerreotype was the first commercially successful photographic process (1839-1860) in the history of 19th-century photography. Named after the inventor Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, each daguerreotype is a unique image on a silvered copper plate. To make the image, a daguerreotypist would polish a sheet of silver-plated copper to a mirror finish, treat it with fumes…
The ambrotype was invented by Frederick Scott Archer. It was introduced in the 1850s and is also known as a collodion positive in the UK. It is a positive photograph on glass made by a variant of the wet plate collodion process. Like a print on paper, it is viewed by reflected light. Each ambrotype…
A tintype, also known as a melainotype or ferrotype, is a photograph made by creating a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal coated with a dark lacquer or enamel. There are two historic tintype processes: wet and dry. In the wet process, a collodion emulsion containing suspended silver halide crystals had to be formed…
Maharaja Sir Sardar Singh Bahadur GCSI (11 February 1880 – 21 March 1911) was the Maharaja of Jodhpur State (historically known as the Kingdom of Marwar) from 11 October 1895 till his death. He succeeded his father Maharaja Sir Jaswant Singh II in 1895. He reigned under the Regency of his uncle until he came…