Carpentier
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| AFR | Alsaphot | André and Lieutier | Angénieux | Arca Swiss | As de Trèfle | Atoms | Aubertin | Balcar | Bardin | Bauchet | Baudry | Bellieni | Berthiot | Boumsell | Boyer | Bronzavia | Cindo | Cord | Cornu | Coronet | Darlot | Demaria-Lapierre | Derogy | Faller | FAP | Fex | Français | Compagnie Française de Photographie | Gallus | Gaumont | Georges Paris | Girard | Gitzo | Goldstein | Héard & Mallinjod | Hermagis | Idam | Itier | Jousset | Joux | Kafta | Kinax | Kodak Pathé | Krauss | Lumière | Lund | Mackenstein | Manufrance | MAPED | Mazo | MFAP | MIOM | Mollier | Mundus | Olbia | Omega | OPL | Pierrat | Richard | Richard (Jules) | Roussel | Royer | SEM | Secam | SIAP | Soulé | Spirotechnique | Tiranty | Vergne | Zion (France) | ||
Jules Carpentier was a camera-maker in Paris in the 1890s. The firm developed the first jumelle cameras.[1] Carpentier's Photo-Jumelle might be mistaken for a stereo camera; it has two lenses, side by side on the front of a rigid-bodied body, tapered toward the lensboard (in fact the 1892 patent shows two separate conical bodies on the front of a rectangular rear magazine housing, but an example made this way has not been seen). However, one lens only serves the viewfinder. This is viewed through the red window of the plate magazine. The camera was made for 4.5x6 cm or 6.5x9 cm plates in a twelve-plate magazine with a pull-push rod for changing the plate.[2] The camera was sold in Britain by the London Stereoscopic Company.[2] Early Photography states that the cameras, at first fixed-focus and with a single-speed shutter,[1] were improved over time.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Swiss Patent 4911 of 1892, Photo-jumelle à répétition, filed April 1892 and granted August 1892 to Jules Carpentier, at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office. The patent refers specifically to a camera for 4.5x6 cm plates.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 4.5x6 cm Photo-Jumelle at Early Photography.
Links
- Cameras by Jules Carpentier at Gérard Langlois' Marques Francais. The cameras include one described as for 6x6 cm exposures.
- An unidentified Carpentier camera at Collection G. Even's site
