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+ | The '''Précidès''' is a metal-bodied box camera for 6x9 cm pictures<ref>This appears to be the format; neither McKeown nor ''Collection d'Appareils'' give it, but it must surely be rectangular, from the shape of the viewfinder.</ref> on 620 roll film, from about 1950.<ref name=McK>McKeown lists the camera (under its own name, not that of a company) and dates the Lanvin version to 1951; {{McKeown12}} p802.</ref> ''Collection d'Appareils'' attributes the camera to a company named MAPED (Manufacture d’Appareils de Précision Et de Dessin; Precision Camera Manufacture and Design), of Annecy in the Haute-Savoie departement of France, near Geneva.<ref name=CdA1>[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/appareil-101-Precides.html Précidès] at Sylvain Halgand's [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/carrousel/html/index.php Collection d'Appareils Photo]; the standard model of the camera (an example apparently given away in a promotion by Les Biscuits Nantes), together with the microscope also made by the MAPED company.</ref> | ||
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+ | It has an 'I' and 'B' shutter, selected by the left-hand control (the user's left) of the two below the lens, and released by the button at the bottom right. The other control selects between two aperture stops.<ref name=CdA1/> It has a reverse-Galilean viewfinder on the right side (the notes at ''Collection d'Appareils'' comment that the camera itself blocks more than half of the view in the finder<ref name=CdA1/>) and a plastic strap handle on the top. The film is advanced with a winding knob and red window. | ||
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+ | Both ''Collection d'Appareils'' and McKeown show both the standard camera, and one apparently made as a promotional item for Lanvin chocolates;<ref name=McK/><ref>[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/appareil-1566-Precides.html Précidès 'Lanvin'] at ''Collection d'Appareils''.</ref> this has a plate above the lens reading 'LANVIN' (and in McKeown's example, the handle is mounted the other way around, with the loop at the front); otherwise it is identical to the standard camera. | ||
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+ | The camera was also sold as the '''Menetrel'''.<ref name=McK/> | ||
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Revision as of 17:46, 9 July 2012
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The Précidès is a metal-bodied box camera for 6x9 cm pictures[1] on 620 roll film, from about 1950.[2] Collection d'Appareils attributes the camera to a company named MAPED (Manufacture d’Appareils de Précision Et de Dessin; Precision Camera Manufacture and Design), of Annecy in the Haute-Savoie departement of France, near Geneva.[3]
It has an 'I' and 'B' shutter, selected by the left-hand control (the user's left) of the two below the lens, and released by the button at the bottom right. The other control selects between two aperture stops.[3] It has a reverse-Galilean viewfinder on the right side (the notes at Collection d'Appareils comment that the camera itself blocks more than half of the view in the finder[3]) and a plastic strap handle on the top. The film is advanced with a winding knob and red window.
Both Collection d'Appareils and McKeown show both the standard camera, and one apparently made as a promotional item for Lanvin chocolates;[2][4] this has a plate above the lens reading 'LANVIN' (and in McKeown's example, the handle is mounted the other way around, with the loop at the front); otherwise it is identical to the standard camera.
The camera was also sold as the Menetrel.[2]
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Notes
- ↑ This appears to be the format; neither McKeown nor Collection d'Appareils give it, but it must surely be rectangular, from the shape of the viewfinder.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 McKeown lists the camera (under its own name, not that of a company) and dates the Lanvin version to 1951; McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p802.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Précidès at Sylvain Halgand's Collection d'Appareils Photo; the standard model of the camera (an example apparently given away in a promotion by Les Biscuits Nantes), together with the microscope also made by the MAPED company.
- ↑ Précidès 'Lanvin' at Collection d'Appareils.