Cyclographe (focusing model)

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: J. Damoizeau
DESIGNER: J. Damoizeau
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
SEE ALSO:
  Cyclographe à foyer fixe
  Stereo Cyclographe (fixed focus)
INTRODUCTION DATE: Dec. 5 1890
PRODUCTION DATES: ca 1890-1894
PATENT DATE: May 3, 1889
FILM TYPE: rollfilm
FUNCTIONAL TYPES:
  panoramic
  view
INTERCHANGEABLE LENS: Yes    INTEGRATED SHUTTER: Yes

NOTES:
  "J. Damoizeau presented the first model of his Cyclographe on December
  5, 1890, before a meeting of the Société Française de Photographie.
  The original model, as exhibited at that meeting, was a collapsible
  bellows-camera which resembled a rather disproportionately high view
  camera of those times. The rear of the camera was hinged to open, and
  the mechanism which operated the camera was visible both externally
  and internally.
  The camera, and other subsequent models, operated on one of the basic
  forms of panoramic photography. That is, as the camera, driven by a
  key-wind mechanism, turned on its tripod in one direction, the film
  was wound in the opposite direction past a slit at the plane of focus.
  While the camera was able to take a full 360° view, it could also be
  used for lesser segments. A sharp punch device to indicate the
  beginning of each exposure on the film was coupled to the release
  mechanism which started the clock-work operating. The collapsible
  model had provisions for focusing, a scale being provided at the side
  of the camera bed; it also had rising and falling motions of the
  camera front." (Lothrop, 1973).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: D163.00002
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1164

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Lothrop, Eaton S., Jr. --A Century of Cameras from the Collection of the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House.-- Dobbs Ferry, NY: Morgan & Morgan, 1973. pp 83.//