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The '''Dandycam Automatic Camera''' is a box-form camera made by [[Butcher]] in London, from about 1913.<ref name=McK>{{McKeown12}} p171.</ref> The body is wooden, with leatherette covering. It makes photographs on one-inch diameter [[ferrotype]] button plates. Twelve can be loaded in a magazine in the left-hand side of the camera (apparently in daylight).

Despite its simple appearance, the Dandycam is a single-lens reflex camera. The image from the taking lens is reflected by a mirror onto a yellow viewing screen on the top of the camera.<ref name=EP>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C392.html Dandycam] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html EarlyPhotography].</ref> The shutter release lifts the mirror. Like most ferrotype cameras, the Dandycam incorporates a small developing tank.<ref>[http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2453898 Dandycam]; the camera and its developing tank, plus original box, sold in September 2006 by [http://www.liveauctioneers.com/auctioneer/364-auction-team-breker Auction Team Breker] in Cologne.</ref> After exposure, pulling a slider at the rear of the plate magazine changes the plate and drops the exposed one into the tank, containing a combined developer and fixer solution.<ref name=CdA>[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=20146 Advertisement for the Dandycam] by Société du Franceville in Paris, offering the camera, ferrotype plates, developer/fixer in powder or liquid form, and medallions for mounting the finished plates; at Sylvain Halgand's [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/carrousel/html/index.php Collection Appareils]</ref> the finished (positive) plate then requires only rinsing with water, and allowing to dry.

The camera has an [[achromatic lens]],<ref name=CdA /> and no exposure adjustments or focusing.


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==Links==
* [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Butcher-The-Dandycam/AI-19-12830 Dandycam] sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-19/ nineteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 28 May 2011.

[[Category: Ferrotype cameras]]
[[Category: SLR]]
[[Category: D]]
[[Category:UK]]