Scénographe

OBJECT TYPE: Camera
MANUFACTURER: E. Deyrolle
DESIGNER: Candeze, Ernest
NATIONALITY: French
PLACE MANUFACTURED: France, Paris
INTRODUCTION DATE: ca 1880
FILM TYPE: dry plate
IMAGE SIZES:
  4¼ x 6½ in.
  11 x 16 cm
ORIGINAL LIST PRICE: 50 francs
SIGNIFICANT FEATURE: flexible cloth bellows
FUNCTIONAL TYPE: folding
STANDARD LENSES/SHUTTERS: Darlot 180mm f/20 meniscus

NOTES:
  "The Scénographe was designed by Dr. Candèze around 1874. It
  represented an attempt to give considerable compactness to a camera,
  and employed a flexible cloth bellows, much on the principle of
  Willat's bellows camera of 1851." (Lothrop, 1973).
  At least 3 models exhist:
  "1. Green silk 'soufflet' with gold embossed "CANDEZE" (home market)
  and "E.DEYROLLES a PARIS" (French marker; Deyrolles being Candeze'
  sales agent in France). The top plate is cut out to allow for the fol
  folding of the viewfinder and the focusing screens are in cardboard.
  2. Black silken 'soufflet', no cut out in the wooden top plate and
  wooden framed focussing screen with matching wooden slides.
  3. Same as 2 but the 'soufflet is of black leather." (van Hasbroeck).

OBJECT IDENTIFIER: D5294.00001

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
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 19.//
George Eastman House Information File - Technology Collection Manuals.//