ASMR at the museum | Clicking the shutter on Paneth's plate camera | V&A

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Join Curatorial Operations Coordinator Dan Cox as he shows us a plate camera made in 1927, which was owned by photographer and distinguished chemist, Friedrich Paneth. Watch and listen as Dan carefully handles the Zeiss Ikon Maximar camera to demonstrate how it works, clicking the shutter at different speeds, folding and unfolding the bellows and even letting us take a peek through the focussing screen – just as Paneth would have done.

Paneth made incredible early colour photographs called autochromes which were produced on glass plates and had luminous, vibrant colours. Follow Dan as he shows some examples of Paneth's photography, whilst giving us an insight into how the specialist process of making an autochrome works.

00:00 Unfolding the Zeiss Ikon Maximar plate camera
00:53 Who is Paneth the chemist / photographer?
01:54 How to take an autochrome – process
02:24 Folding away the camera bellows
2:36 Paneth photographing his students during a lecture
03:15 Examining and looking through the focusing screen
4:30 How Paneth achieved his vibrant aesthetic – "Always intensify"
5:30 How to set the shutter speed and pressing the cable release
7:07 Rise and fall for architectural photography
7:52 Shifting left and right and pressing the shutter

See more cameras and photography in our Photography Centre: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/photograph...

Read more about autochromes in the book Colour Mania by Catlin Langford: https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/books/phot...

See more objects from our Photography collection: https://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/pho...

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