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Artefact gallery

Photographic equipment

Photographic equipment was used for the production of composite maps and the reproduction of aerial photography. Photographers captured images depicting the history and development of Queensland.

  • Ombrux exposure meter used with photographs taken for the department
  • Weston exposure meter used with cine photography
  • Hunter Penrose camera used for cartographic reproduction of maps
  • Hunter Penrose camera ready to take a photograph of a map
  • Preparing a map on the copy board for photographic reproduction by the Hunter Penrose camera
  • Lens panel of the Hunter Penrose camera
  • Quality checking of a plate that has been processed using the Hunter Penrose camera
  • Back of the Klimsch cartographic camera
  • Klimsch cartographic camera used for cartographic reproduction of maps
  • View of the Klimsch cartographic camera from behind its copy board
  • Map on the copy board waiting for photograph to be taken by the Klimsch cartographic camera
  • Lens used for photographic reproduction in early 1900s
  • Lenses used for photographic reproduction in early 1900s
  • Plate holder used for drying glass plates

In this guide:

  1. Distance measurement instruments
  2. Drafting and mapping instruments
  3. Angular measurement instruments
  4. Heighting instruments
  5. Surveying accessories
  6. Astronomical observing instruments and timekeeping
  7. Artefact gallery
  8. Photographic equipment
  9. Calculations

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Last updated:
13 March 2018
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