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Welcome to the new website of argentum camera manufactura, where you will always find refreshing content.
Please note the menu "catalogues", where you can download pdf brochures about the camera
you want to know more of. I am refreshing and expanding the number of these materials.
In case you happen not to find something, or need more information, please, do not hesitate
to contact me.
I do my best to trace the life of the cameras after the owners received them. Let me draw your attention as well to the gallery on my website, where the list of the photographers is being refreshed along with the photographs.

Istvan Soltesz

Apart from cherry wood argentum cameras are made of black walnut as well from now. The density of these types
of woods are almost the same, so I can still stick to the original concept of making the possible lightest cameras
I can. The dark tone of black walnut is very aesthetic and harmonizes very well with the silver anodized aluminum
knobs.

Let me introduce the new architec type. The detailed pdf brochure of the camera can be found under the menu "catalogues".

A report of Mr. Thierry Rebours with Istvan Soltesz for Galerie-Photo,
the French site for High Resolution Photography :
http://www.galerie-photo.com/argentum.html
http://www.galerie-photo.com/istvan-soltesz.html

A unique appearance of argentum camera obscura. In case you are interested in what happened to the pinhole camera, here you will find the story:

http://www.meublepeint.com/peindre-un-stenope.htm