I'm being driven mad by what may be a false memory.
I'm sure I can remember reading about a photographer who advocated a concave mirror based camera for portraits. I think this was in the period pre petzval or about that time. Were they produced commercially?
Can anyone remember a name or point me in the direction of something on the web. Searching for all the obvious words is getting me way too many false hits!
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Yes! Wolcott camera!
I didn't know it had a claim to being the first photographic portrait camera though
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Wolcott
Thank you.
That's Alexander S. Wolcott.
Do you mean the Walcott camera?
Do a search for Beard and Walcott.