Scott's Photographica Collection

Wanted to Buy or Trade

As an active collector I'm always searching for new items to add to my collection.  Whether you have a single item or a collection for sale I'd like to hear from you.  If you prefer to trade, tell me what interests you.  We might be able to work out an exchange. 

My interests in photography are broad.  The collection spans over 150 years dating back to the late 1840s.

Current Area of Interest
My primary field of study in recent years has been the history of color photography.  I've collected specialized color cameras including models made by Curtis Laboratories, Devin Colorgraph Company, Bermpohl & Company and Oskar Mikut.  This type of camera is known by a variety of names: color-separation; tri-color and three-color.  A color-separation camera takes three separate black and white photographs, either simultaneously or in sequence.  Each of the three photographs is shot through a different filter.  The filter colors are red, green and blue.  After development the three black and white negatives are combined by any of a variety of means to form a full-color image.  Cameras that take three simultaneous exposures are called "single-shot" or "one-shot" cameras.  When the three photos are exposed in sequence this is usually done with a "repeating" or "sliding back" camera.  I plan to collect additional cameras of each type by these makers and also those made by F. E. Ives, Butler, Jos-Pe Farbenphoto and others.  I also collect their accessories, manuals, literature, catalogs, price sheets, company documents and related ephemera.

In addition to specialized color-separation cameras I collect older color images, media and packaging.  This includes Autochrome, Filmcolor, Lumicolor, Alticolor, Dufaycolor, Finlaycolor, lenticular Kodacolor, Kodachrome, Paget, Agfacolor and others, both plates and film in original boxes, and good quality images made by these processes.

Wanted to Buy or Trade

• Specialized color (color-separation) cameras, accessories, viewers, Diascopes, literature and ephemera
  • Makers include: Curtis, Devin, Bermpohl, Oskar Mikut, Frederick E. Ives, Butler, Jos-Pe Farbenphoto
• Color images made by older color processes:
  • Autochrome, Dufaycolor, Finlaycolor, lenticular Kodacolor, Kodachrome, Paget, Agfacolor, others, also good examples of color prints made by the dye-transfer, wash-off relief, carbro and similar processes.
• Sets of color separation negatives and transparencies on film or glass plates
• Kromograms
• Older boxed color film, plates and printing paper such as Autochrome, Agfacolor Ultra and Neue, Defender Tri-Color Combination film packs, DuPont other maker's bi-packs, Dufaycolor, Lumicolor, Finlaycolor, Kodachrome, Kodacolor, Lenticular Kodacolor cine film, Utocolor, Anscocolor, Anscochrome, Ansco Printon, Filmcolor, Alticolor, Diopticolor, Omnicolore, Thames Colour Plate, Paget Panchromatic Plates for Colour Screens, Paget Colour Screens, Leto Colour Screens, Ilford Panchromatic Plates, etc...
• Anything made, sold or published by Curtis Laboratories including Curtis Stellar lenses
• Wood cameras, accessories and paraphernalia
• Early cameras, accessories and paraphernalia
• Nikon rangefinder cameras, lenses and accessories
• Nikon F cameras, lenses and accessories.  Only the F reflex model, not the F2 and later SLRs.
• Wescon cameras, lenses, accessories and ephemera
• Old film boxes
• Vintage images of hammocks
• Camera parts and parts cameras

Also...
Currently, (February, 2010) I am looking for an older uncoated Meyer Trioplan 210mm f4.5 lens.  I need the front element group to be in good condition, the rest of the lens may be missing or in poor condition.  I will consider a complete lens in excellent condition.

Email Scott at:  scott@vintagephoto.tv

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