Plavic 9x12
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| This Plavic 9x12 folder bed plate camera (c.1930) is exactly the same camera
as much as in very fine details and lens with Héard & Mallinjod Hémax folder plate serie 00) |
Plavic 9x12 is a 9x12cm folder bed plate film camera, and manufactured by Héard & Mallinjod, Lyon, France for Plavic firm in Lyon. Model: c.1930, serie 00, (Without identification).
This camera is the same with rare Hémax folder bed plate camera and Hémax folders produced 1923 to 1930s.
Specifications
Lens: Plavic-Anastigmat 135mm f/6.3, Aperture range f/6.3-f/32, filter slip-on
Focusing: Bellows focusing, index and scale on the left-inside of the front cover, Focus range: 1-10m +inf
Shutter: Gitzo leaf shutter type B1, speeds: 1/25, 1/50, 1/100 +T & B
Cocking and Shutter release: by the same lever, on front of the lens-shutter barrel,
Manuel shutter cocking and releasing on the same time, for the speed settings, by pressing once the lever, the diaphragm opens and closes
View finders: 1) Waist level Brilliant Finder on top of the lens standard, turning 90 degrees left on its own axis for landscape pictures 2) Sports finder: A big wire sports finder, hinged on the lens standard and used with a folding rear peep sight part, on the left side of the camera
Bellows: single-extension, can bend over with a sliding part on the lens standard
Body: metalic, weighs 850g
--Dr.Süleyman Demir 06:35, 19 February 2011 (PST)
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| Plavic 9x12 folder bed plate camera, c.1930 image by Süleyman Demir {{ (Image rights)}} |
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| Gitzo shutter and Plavic lens image by Süleyman Demir {{ (Image rights)}} |
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| Plavic logo image by Süleyman Demir {{ (Image rights)}} |
