Using a view camera
In many ways, a view camera is the most perfect, one could say, the ultimate camera. It is precisely for this reason that it has been used in a largely unchanged form since the beginning of photography and it is the only type of traditional, film camera still in production (albeit speaking of film an digital cameras is slightly misleading as in most cases the only difference is the graflock back vs a digital back). At the same time, it is a camera that offers no help to the user, at the same time enabling and necessitating complete control over the process.
Above all Silver
The 19th century was undoubtedly the most stormy and dynamic age in the history of photography. It was not just the century when photography was invented but above all the time when nearly all the photochemical processes ever used...