Lumière Magazine Camera

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: Charles Monti
INVENTOR: Lumière, Louis Jean
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca. 1892
FILM TYPE: dry plate
IMAGE SIZE: 9 x 12 cm.
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: magazine
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: 135mm f/11 rapid rectilinear

NOTES:
  "This magazine camera designed by Lumière and manufactured by Monti
  is a fine example of a spring-fed drop-plate magazine camera. The
  plates, in their sheaths, are loaded through the rear panel. A coil
  spring mounted on the panel keeps the plates pushed forward, the
  foremost resting at the plane of focus. Following the exposure, the
  plate-release dial is turned one notch. This causes the plate to fall
  forward and drop onto its face in the bottom of the camera. An
  exposure counter is coupled to the dial which releases the plates."
  (Lothrop, 1973.)

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: M7911.00001
VIDEODISC 1, FRAME NUMBER: 1062

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 71.//