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Pocket Magda

1920·Camera

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The Pocket Magda is a cheap camera for plates or film-packs, made by Henri-Armand Fauger of Paris in about 1920.[1] It was made in two sizes, for 4.5x6cm and 6.5x9cm plates or film-packs. The body of the camera is something like a cigarette case, which hinges open along its long side, one half forming a simple folding bed, and the other the rear of the camera, where the plate-holder slides into rails. The lens and shutter unit is another metal box, which lifts out of the rear on its bellows, and

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