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A '''chambre à joues''' ('joue' is French for 'cheek') is a type of hand-camera popular around the beginning of the 20th century. The camera has a bellows but no base-board. Instead, there is a panel on each side of the bellows, usually of wood, hinged from the rear body and inserted behind the lens board to act as a strut. The type was largely superceded by cameras with metal struts. | A '''chambre à joues''' ('joue' is French for 'cheek') is a type of hand-camera popular around the beginning of the 20th century. The camera has a bellows but no base-board. Instead, there is a panel on each side of the bellows, usually of wood, hinged from the rear body and inserted behind the lens board to act as a strut. The type was largely superceded by cameras with metal struts. | ||
| − | Camera-wiki.org has few examples (see the | + | Camera-wiki.org has few examples (see the [[Xit|Shew Xit]]). |
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Revision as of 23:12, 1 November 2014
A chambre à joues ('joue' is French for 'cheek') is a type of hand-camera popular around the beginning of the 20th century. The camera has a bellows but no base-board. Instead, there is a panel on each side of the bellows, usually of wood, hinged from the rear body and inserted behind the lens board to act as a strut. The type was largely superceded by cameras with metal struts.
Camera-wiki.org has few examples (see the Shew Xit).
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