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- Title
Carpentier's Photo-Jumelle: The forgotten French ancestor of the miniature camera.
- Authors
Newhall, Beaumont
- Abstract
The article discusses the design and manufacture of a certain miniature camera invented by a French amateur photographer Jules Carpentier. Carpentier invented the camera for his own use and called it as photo-binocular because it was held to the eye like a pair of binoculars. He was encouraged by Félix-Maxime Richard , a leading dealer in photographic instruments, to produce such camera commercially. In manufacturing the camera, which was small-sized and made of wood and metal, he applied various techniques and built a device to measure the exact measurement of local length of each lens. Today, it is unknown to be the antecedent of the contemporary miniature camera.
- Subjects
MINIATURE cameras; PHOTOGRAPHIC equipment design &; construction; IMAGE transmission equipment; TWIN-lens reflex cameras; OPTICAL instruments; INVENTIONS; CARPENTIER, Jules; RICHARD, Felix-Maxime; INVENTORS
- Publication
Image, 1957, Vol 6, Issue 6, p128
- ISSN
0536-5465
- Publication type
Article