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Voigtländer Bijou

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The Bijou is a single-lens camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made in about 1908 by Voigtländer; it is the first SLR in such a small format.[1] It is broadly box-shaped, with a slight taper toward the front. It has a ground-glass focusing screen in the top of the camera, within a folding leather hood. Unlike many larger box-form SLR cameras, it has helical focusing in the lens mount, rather than a bellows.

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