Kibitz
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The Kibitz[1] is a strut-folding plate camera, made by Nettel Camerawerk from about 1905 (when the company was still called Camerawerk Sontheim), until about 1912.[2] It is similar to the Sonnet, introduced a few years later, except that whereas the Sonnet has a wooden body, the Kibitz is metal-bodied. The camera has a simple folding bed on which the front standard runs out. The struts give a focusing mechanism, with a scale on the side of the body, with the end of one strut acting as the pointe