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The cameras are arranged alphabetically by brand to facilitate quick consultation, with each model and version of the brand described in chronological order. All the cameras are illustrated in color.
Fifty years of French amateur ciné / movie cameras, in the period from 1923 to the early seventies, are covered in depth. Fifty years of intense creativity in French industry in the field. Fifthy years of home movies made by amateurs on their cameras in 8, 9.5, or 16mm Format. Fifty years of memories...

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This is the best-documented work to date on the prodigious historiy of Soviet camera producers and lens-making companies, and of the pioneers in the world of photography in pre-Soviet Russia.

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It will be particulary appreciated by the «iconomecanophile» who is enamoured of these beautiful French cameras. The FOCA models PF and U were the French answer to the Leica, and reigned supreme in the hearts of French photographers for two decades. Between the covers of FOCAgraphie you will find detailed coverage of the Standard and the PF, with their screwmount lenses, the mythical FOCAsix, the FOCA U series with their bayonet-mount lenses, and the FOCAflex and FOCAsport models as well. This book will take you back to the days of the street photogaphers, to Kodachrome 25, and the black and white prints, that you waited for so impatiently at your local drugstore. Those days are not so far off.

FOCAgraphie in glorious color, with its 800 photographic images and reproductions of period literature, is a photo historian's book «the way you wish were all made.» It is the quality standard by which all such volumes will be judged.