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a dilly of a dag camera c1840

Toronto. The announcement in January, 1839 of the Daguerreotype process electrified the civilized world. First and foremost in improvements were to reduce the time needed to create a ‘likeness’. In 1840 Petzval created a much faster portrait lens to properly … Continue reading

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