Talk:Reisekamera

Difference with "field camera"

Isn't "Reisekamera" the German word for a "field camera", which is a view camera with which you can go to the field? When I read the description of "field camera" in this or this page at Wikipedia, I don't understand the difference between both concepts. --Rebollo fr 07:06, 3 January 2009 (EST)

No. Reisekamera is to be translated as "travel camera". The topic of the article is the type of camera that was marketed as a distinguishable kind of view camera mainly under the names "Reisekamera", "Reise-Camera", "Schüler-Kamera" (student's camera), "travel camera", "chambre de voyage", or under other names but with that characteristic camera design, mainly made around the year 1900, the Soviet FKD camera maybe even made until ca. 1975. The cameras were foldable for portablility and needed not that very heavy kind of tripod used for studio cameras. Thus not all portable view cameras with the name "Reisekamera", "travel camera" or so followed the mainstream tailboard architecture with rear focusing, some had just the difference of front focusing, for example a Voigtländer Reisekamera of 1890, others tended to be more sophisticated field cameras, for example the Houghtons Ensign Reisekamera (both examples in Abring Vol. 1) as well as other English and French camera models. "Continental View" is another term common for the type of travel camera meant in this article. U. Kulick 13:57, 3 January 2009 (EST)