By Redaktion Club Daguerre aktuell —

From the lab that never was...

Some images are created in a museum, others in an archive
and still others in a place where historical camera development, overly perfect patina and Professor Dr Ki meet.

In April, we presented a collection in Photo Antiquaria that never existed:
Camera "prototypes" that looked suspiciously good, appeared technically highly plausible - and yet, on closer inspection, a little too good to be true.

What you see here are the outtakes from this experiment:
Variants, discarded ideas, alternative designs and visual escapades from Dr Ki's imaginary laboratory. Cameras that never made it to series production, never saw a workbench and yet look surprisingly familiar.

Dr. Ki Prototyp 01 Dr. Ki Prototyp 02 Dr. Ki Prototyp 03 Dr. Ki Prototyp 04 Dr. Ki Prototyp 05 Dr. Ki Prototyp 06 Dr. Ki Prototyp 07 Dr. Ki Prototyp 08 Dr. Ki Prototyp 09 Dr. Ki Prototyp 10 Dr. Ki Prototyp 11 Dr. Ki Prototyp 12 Dr. Ki Prototyp 13 Dr. Ki Prototyp 14 Dr. Ki Prototyp 15 Dr. Ki Prototyp 16 Dr. Ki Prototyp 17 Dr. Ki Prototyp 18 Dr. Ki Prototyp 19 Dr. Ki Prototyp 20 Dr. Ki Prototyp 21 Dr. Ki Prototyp 22 Dr. Ki Prototyp 23 Dr. Ki Prototyp 24 Dr. Ki Prototyp 25 Dr. Ki Prototyp 26 Dr. Ki Prototyp 27 Dr. Ki Prototyp 28 Dr. Ki Prototyp 29 Dr. Ki Prototyp 30 Dr. Ki Prototyp 31 Dr. Ki Prototyp 32 Dr. Ki Prototyp 33 Dr. Ki Prototyp 34 Dr. Ki Prototyp 35

Some are reminiscent of real development threads, others play more freely with shapes, materials and eras - always with a wink and a great love of detail. Anyone who catches themselves thinking briefly about production figures, bayonets or types of fasteners is definitely in the best of company.

Have fun leafing through this parallel history of photographic technology - and don't worry
and don't worry: the real cameras are still safe on the shelves.
(The imaginary ones were allowed to really let off steam).