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| − | The '''Foldette''' is a folding camera for 9x12cm plates, made by the Parisian camera-maker Mazo at around the turn of the 20th century. The camera is of an interesting design. The front section is like any of the numerous falling-plate detective cameras of the period, but because of its unusual construction, the Foldette is not a falling-plate camera, but uses single plate holders. It is the back of the camera that folds. The back board, carrying the ground-glass screen and accepting plate holders, is attached to the front by a bellows rather than a rigid box. The board can be slid forward, the bellows going into the front section, and the top and bottom boards then fold up. | + | The '''Foldette''' is a folding camera for 9x12cm plates, made by the Parisian camera-maker [[Mazo]] at around the turn of the 20th century. The camera is of an interesting design. The front section is like any of the numerous falling-plate detective cameras of the period, but because of its unusual construction, the Foldette is not a falling-plate camera, but uses single plate holders. It is the back of the camera that folds. The back board, carrying the ground-glass screen and accepting plate holders, is attached to the front by a bellows rather than a rigid box. The board can be slid forward, the bellows going into the front section, and the top and bottom boards then fold up. |
The camera has a lens with helical focusing and an iris diaphragm, and a multi-speed rotary shutter. The lens could be an f/6 'extra-rapid orthoscope', Mazo's own Anastigmat or a Zeiss Anastigmat.<ref name=CA>[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/appareil-11479-Mazo_La%20Foldette.html Foldette] at ''Collection Appareils'': several pictures of the camera and a catalogue page.</ref> There are separate brilliant finders for horizontal and vertical orientation, and a bubble level for each orientation. | The camera has a lens with helical focusing and an iris diaphragm, and a multi-speed rotary shutter. The lens could be an f/6 'extra-rapid orthoscope', Mazo's own Anastigmat or a Zeiss Anastigmat.<ref name=CA>[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/appareil-11479-Mazo_La%20Foldette.html Foldette] at ''Collection Appareils'': several pictures of the camera and a catalogue page.</ref> There are separate brilliant finders for horizontal and vertical orientation, and a bubble level for each orientation. | ||
Revision as of 03:48, 30 September 2017
The Foldette is a folding camera for 9x12cm plates, made by the Parisian camera-maker Mazo at around the turn of the 20th century. The camera is of an interesting design. The front section is like any of the numerous falling-plate detective cameras of the period, but because of its unusual construction, the Foldette is not a falling-plate camera, but uses single plate holders. It is the back of the camera that folds. The back board, carrying the ground-glass screen and accepting plate holders, is attached to the front by a bellows rather than a rigid box. The board can be slid forward, the bellows going into the front section, and the top and bottom boards then fold up.
The camera has a lens with helical focusing and an iris diaphragm, and a multi-speed rotary shutter. The lens could be an f/6 'extra-rapid orthoscope', Mazo's own Anastigmat or a Zeiss Anastigmat.[1] There are separate brilliant finders for horizontal and vertical orientation, and a bubble level for each orientation.
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- Foldette sold at the 7th Camera Auction by Westlicht Photographica Auction, May 2005.
