designer and professional photographer, opened a photographic studio in 1853 at the rear of MacNicol’s drapery store in King William Street, Adelaide, South Australia, in partnership with C.W. May , apparently the camera operator. In January 1854 they advertised that they would take daguerreotypes 'in their Glass-house, on silver plates with the new and improved apparatus’ and stated that their exposure time for a daguerreotype was 10 to 40 seconds. Kopsch and May were still taking likenesses in July and strongly recommending the winter season, 'as there is now no more heat and dust, which in the summer, are the two great evils that have to be overcome. The weather will in no instance make any difference, whether raining or sunshine. Open daily from 9 till 3’.
Kopsch, identified as 'a member of the Torpedo Corps’, was in Sydney by 1875. In May he was commended as the designer and decorator of a large composite picture containing photographs (taken by J.H. Newman ) of every officer and cadet in the Naval Brigade. This was presented to the brigade’s commander, Captain Hixson, at a celebratory luncheon.
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- 1992
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