An old engraving of a photographer and his portable-darkroom tent studio in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Out in the field early photographers needed somewhere to process their photographic glass plates. Wheeled vehicles were sometimes used but at its most basic a tent could be set up on a tripod to enable the processing using the chemicals and water required. It had to be light-free, with ‘yellow glass’ allowing a degree of visibility within the canvas enclosure. All could be packed away in the box below the tripod.
An old engraving of a photographer and his portable-darkroom tent studio in the 1800s. It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Out in the field early photographers needed somewhere to process their photographic glass plates. Wheeled vehicles were sometimes used but at its most basic a tent could be set up on a tripod to enable the processing using the chemicals and water required. It had to be light-free, with ‘yellow glass’ allowing a degree of visibility within the canvas enclosure. All could be packed away in the box below the tripod.
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