Traduction de Sylvain Halgand.

Here a not very banal camera! It is about one of the rare cameras intended to make lenticular photograph.
What is what the lenticular photograph?

Remember the mode of the door-key in the Sixties. Some presented a view which became animated as soon as one made swivel a small transparent plastic plate, striated and rather thick. To simplify, the scratches of the plate acted like prisms. The angle of the prism made it possible to see only part of the photograph or the drawing inserted under the plastic plate. Thus to suppose that several photographs of an object in displacement (or taken simultaneously under several angles) are overlapping the ones in the others vertically in the form of bands, the fact of moving the plate, therefore to change the angle of vision, will show to you these bands the ones after the others, thus creating the movement.

In 1980, at the time of Photokina, Doctors Nims and Lo presented Nimslo. During the two years which followed it was not any more question of the camera. It was started again in 1982, at the time of the PMA (Photo Marketing Association), but always with interrogations on the network of laboratories ready to develop the photographs and “to manufacture” the views.

The camera uses a film 35 mm, but each photograph makes 17.50 X 21.90 mm. At each release, the four lenses (F 5,6/30 mm) take a photograph, therefore the number of exposures with a film 35 mm is limited to 18 (thus 72 photographs). It is about a half-format.

It seems that the concept did not meet discounted success. The difficulties related to the development of the films did undoubtedly not have nothing to do there.

At the end of 1982, it was an even question which this camera is manufactured in France, in the old Kelton-Timex factory of Besancon. Helped by the DATAR, within the framework of a plan of industrial redeployment, group FRASEN HOLDING was to move most of its research center from the USA in Besancon and to establish a new manufacturing unit, generating many employment. Without continuation!