It is not known what sort of equipment Shabunin used. While Kodak was making some rather portable cameras by this time (the Brownie was introduced in 1900), the size and quality of his images, long-exposure blurring, and lack of architectural distortions suggests a larger format camera with bellows that would have required a tripod.
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