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| − | In 1886 George Eastman and Franklin M. Cossitt received the patent for their '''Eastman Detective camera''', a box camera for paper roll film. The roll-holder was an Eastman-Walker rollholder, patented in 1885. It could be replaced by a plate holder. The camera had a pivoted drop-shutter with adjustable falling rapidity and a focusable symmetrical lens with four elements in two groups. The drop-shutter was an alternate construction to focal-plane shutters, a kind of near-focal-plane shutter. | + | In 1886 [[George Eastman]] and Franklin M. Cossitt received the patent for their '''Eastman Detective camera''', a box camera for paper roll film. The roll-holder was an Eastman-Walker rollholder, patented in 1885. It could be replaced by a plate holder. The camera had a pivoted drop-shutter with adjustable falling rapidity and a focusable symmetrical lens with four elements in two groups. The drop-shutter was an alternate construction to [[focal plane shutter|focal-plane shutters]], a kind of near-focal-plane shutter. |
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
| − | *[http://www.google.com/patents?id=9s9iAAAAEBAJ Patent] at | + | *[http://www.google.com/patents?id=9s9iAAAAEBAJ Patent] at [http://www.google.com/patents Google Patents] |
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| + | [[Category:Detective cameras]] | ||
[[Category:Kodak]] | [[Category:Kodak]] | ||
[[Category:1839-1889]] | [[Category:1839-1889]] | ||
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Latest revision as of 03:11, 25 January 2012
In 1886 George Eastman and Franklin M. Cossitt received the patent for their Eastman Detective camera, a box camera for paper roll film. The roll-holder was an Eastman-Walker rollholder, patented in 1885. It could be replaced by a plate holder. The camera had a pivoted drop-shutter with adjustable falling rapidity and a focusable symmetrical lens with four elements in two groups. The drop-shutter was an alternate construction to focal-plane shutters, a kind of near-focal-plane shutter.
