Lumière Folding Camera - Antique and Vintage Cameras

Lumière Folding Camera

c.1950s

Lumière & Cie

Lyon

France

Image of Lumière Folding Camera

Lens:
f4.5, 80 mm Spector, iris diaphragm to f22.

Shutter:
Leaf shutter, speeds 1/10 - 1/250, B. Flash synchronisation.

Construction:
Leatherette covered metal body, leather bellows.

Format:
For 6 x 6 cm or 6 x 4.5 cm exposures on 120 roll-film.

Focusing:
To 1.5 metre.

Attributes:
Direct-vision (lens/lens) view-finder. Waist-level brilliant view-finder.
Film-advance indicated by red window, not coupled to shutter. Indicator in eye-level view-finder showing shutter has been fired and film not advanced. Lever film-advance.
Extinction meter. Two tripod sockets of different sizes. Depth-of-field scale. Cable release socket.

With:
Ever-ready case.

A streamlined camera but lacking refinements such as coupling between the shutter and film-advance.

The least distinct figure seen in the extinction meter is set against the light conditions shown on a dial at the front of the camera. The shutter/aperture pairs can then be read and set on the camera. The figures in the extinction meter spell 'LUMIPOSE'.

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