The Man from Nellerød....

[Emil Schildt]

or JPA (Jens peter Andersen) was a Danish camera maker - he was rather amazing: he made about 450+ cameras - ALL Unique and numbered...

He was the first to make a 35mm camera - for travel in Africa -

In 1895 he made a camera which is in The Royal Theater in Copenhagen... They STILL use it, and there have never been any repair needed.. Craftmanship I think..

Not all cameras are known (numbers are missing) but it seems an unknown one just surfaced - made around 1900 - travelled to Norway and Greenland.

Totally intact including bag and 6 cassettes - and more than 200 glass negatives from Norway and Greenland...

I want it!!! Badly!!!

Here is something about him - In Danish, I know, but there's a lot of interesting images to study...

http://www.objektiv.dk/objektiv/skan...umre/obj66.pdf

[Roger Thoms]

Wow, thanks for posting this, very interesting. So many unique cameras. Can't read Danish, but really enjoyed the photographs.

Roger

[hoffner]

or JPA (Jens peter Andersen) was a Danish camera maker - he was rather amazing: he made about 450+ cameras - ALL Unique and numbered...

Jens Poul Andersen.
I read Danish.

[Emil Schildt]

Jens Poul Andersen.
I read Danish.

crap...

[Steven Tribe]

I am impressed by the data that has been collected about the "man from Nellerød" - but rather less than impresssed by his productions, compared with the commercial products available from the mainstream UK, French, German and US at the same period!

In particular, his use of a narrow board, like a rail camera, is something that fell out of fashion very early.. His models look as if they were made in a tiny workshop by a skilled craftsman who didn't think much about making a stylish and attractive end result. Especialy the brasswork doen't seen integrated in the design.

Danes have a lot of noise about the wooden box being the first 35mm camera and, perhaps, it did work! But it was obviously a complete deadend. The future lay with perforated film and metal bodies.

[Emil Schildt]

well - it has now been valuated and is up for auction in a big auction house in September...

Estimated value is up to about 6.000$...

[Old-N-Feeble]

Wow, what a Great Dane. Way to go dawg!!

[Steven Tribe]

well - it has now been valuated and is up for auction in a big auction house in September...

Estimated value is up to about 6.000$...

I just don't understand their evaluation!

This is of very local interest and there are no big collectors of historic photographic items (Institutional or Private) in Denmark (it takes at least 2 to tango!).

There was a local maker in Sweden of large format cameras from around 1945 - 1960 and his cameras are either on a par with the major makers in auction prices - or, perhaps, 20 per cent more.

[Emil Schildt]

I told him "they don't know"...

now we'll see...

[Emil Schildt]

I just don't understand their evaluation!

This is of very local interest and there are no big collectors of historic photographic items (Institutional or Private) in Denmark (it takes at least 2 to tango!).

.

so it sold...

a kind of tango was made I think... a Little less than 4000$ + fees..

http://www.bruun-rasmussen.dk/sold-i...en&mode=detail