Stereoscopic camera 45 x 107 mm plates, lenses: E. Krauss Paris Tessar 6.3 / 55mm, fixed focus, shutter guillotine P and 4 different times (slow), the voltage moving shutter faceplate with Newton viewer.
This we week to bring you one of the key pieces in the history of stereoscopic photography: Block-Notes estereo Gaumont, in 1904 , when it began to democratize such devices. This is a folding camera glass plates 45x107 format later became widespread. For its small size, was ideal for taking notes using an image instead of having to write it on paper .
is composed of two metallic bodies joined by a bellows leather and provided two objectives identical focus . for taking stereoscopic views had shutter guillotine with variable speed , very advanced for the time, and . porta chassis plates in the back (you could store up to 12 plates) Among its many attractions, was the mounted automatically at the time of taking the picture, something still rarely seen at the beginning of the twentieth century
in the book Cosmos Photo, New General catalog illustrated 1907 ', described " Le Block-Notes" as the last and most perfect creation of instant photographic apparatus or fixed focus , its dimensions are reduced can be perfectly well in the pocket of the vest
in a notice published in 1904, its visual appearance, cloaking any resemblance to a camera was extolled the Gaumont brand was ahead of his time in another way, and that is that. this machine did not use plates standards, but produced a special that also offered better quality
Notice published in 1904 on Block-Notes Gaumont Stereo
the Block-Notes was one of the creations the French company Gaumont, one company incorporated by the inventor Leon Gaumont in association with engineer Gustave Eiffel (creator of the tower), the astronomer Joseph Vallot and financial Alfred Besnier . Léon Gaumont worked in his youth with Jules Carpentier and Félix Richard (brother of Jules Richard), and although he had important contributions in stereoscopic photography, was also one of the pioneers of insdustria of film.