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In my first photohistorical article I wrote about the photographers in 19th century Roermond, a city in the south of the Netherlands and close to where I live. This was published in 1989. Now I used it to make a wiki file in www.wikilimburg.nl of which I am the project manager. I also added the article to my list of full text pdf's on this site.

I electrified my Black Maria film studio, so I can shoot movies during the winter period. The first result is a video of my very fine No. 4 Eastman Plate camera Series D. Did you know that in 1902 a factory worker in de USA had to work about 6 weeks of 50 hours each to earn the amount of money the camera did cost with a high grade Plastigmat lens?

I hope you enjoy my site. Jos Erdkamp, Netherlands

Copyright Jos Erdkamp on all videos, photos and texts, except for the documents in the Scheimpflug File.

No. 1 Kodak photo 

No. 2 Brownie photo

No. 3 Kodak photo