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Photos by Arnaud Saudax text by Arnaud Saudax. Last update 2022-11-06 par Sylvain Halgand.

Manufactured or assembled in France from (After) 1887 to (After) 1887.
Index of rarity in France: Rare (among non-specialized garage sales)
Inventory number: 2968

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Chronology of cameras Mapip 

MAPIP is an abbreviation for Manufacture d’Appareils Photographiques et d’Instruments de Précision, the name of the company led by the brothers Antonin and Léon Boulade. The Boulade brothers were close friends of the Lumière brothers and provided arc lighting systems for the early cinematographic projectors. In 1897, they hired Francis Pascal as the director of manufacturing, but he left the company before having his own camera, Le Pascal constructed by Japy.

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This detective camera is primitive because changing of plates is done by a leather pocket But the system is perfected since it is a movable frame that makes it possible to raise the exposed plate to make it slide behind the other eleven. This copy carries the number 145 stamped in the plate magazine.
The device has a sliding focus system controlled by the top button, 
Two small mirrored and ground glass viewfinders, protected by small metal caps allow horizontal and vertical sights. There is no variable diaphragm, the shutter is rotary, with cocking and triggering by push-button or bulb. There is a position "L" for slow and an "R" for fast, with possibility of time exposure.
The camera lens has a small front element and a wide rear element. The camera has two Congress type nuts

 

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