Gaumont magazine plate camera

PART OF:: The Kodak Museum Collection

Made:: Paris

maker:: Le Comptoir General de Photographie

Gaumont magazine plate camera, made by Le Comptoir General de Photographie. Tapering box-form magazine plate camera for 9 x 12cm plates. Zeiss anastigmat lens, E. Kraus, Paris, F;224mm, f/12.5. Number 21556. Decaux shutter with winding key dash-pot type speed adjuster, calibrated 1-4. Rack and pinion focusing to 1 meter. Hanau-Richard type rapid push-pull slide changer for 12 plates with flexible wooden shutter, spirit level and exposure counter. Direct vision optical frame finder. Focusing screen; in lined carrying case. Number 842.

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Category:: Photographic Technology

Collection:: Kodak Collection

Object Number:: 1990-5036/693

type:: magazine plate camera

credit:: The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

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