Derogy-Wallet Studio in Sully in 1865.
Réctilinéaire Aplanétique N° 29384 Derogy Fab.t Breveté Paris & Londres Apl.
N° 7 17,5 x 14 cm.
Objectif à foyers multiples with the front group separated from the central barrel.
A short excerpt from "Derogy"
Pag 152…In the 1820's Jean- Baptiste Wallet, Pascal Wallet's brother and the inventor of the “mecanoptique”, set up an optician's laboratory at 73 quai del'Horloge in Paris. He specialized in lenses for reading glasses, lenses and oculars for binoculars, long focus lenses, light condensers, and after Daguerre's discovery, photographic lenses. It seems that Wallet supplied the Chevaliers with lenses for manufacturing photographic objectives for Daguerre (9). In 1851 his son-in-law Eloi-Eugène Derogy, son of a lens maker for reading glasses in Sully, in partnership from 1848 (18), became manager of the…..(continue)
