Niko Tinbergen’s Alpha 35mm camera
Date
1971
Creator
Lary Shaffer (1947, American) , Zoologist
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width (reversal film (colour slide)): 35mm
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Description
Niko Tinbergen’s Alpha 35mm camera with a homemade 210mm lens. The camera is now in the Museum Boerhaave in Leiden.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group..
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
One of a series of images taken or collected by Lary Shaffer for the Oxford Animal Behaviour Research Group..
Nikolaas Tinbergen, (1907–1988), Dutch authority on animal behaviour and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1973, with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1962.
Lary Shaffer (b.1947) American animal behaviourist and photographer, studied under Niko Tinbergen for his doctorate in zoology and acted as a natural history cameraman for BBC and other projects, 1968-1976.
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