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"Émile Tourtin (1844-1931) was a photographer and painter from Avignon. He and his brother Joséph established a studio business (confusingly, working as 'Joséph-Émile Tourtin') at 32 Rue Louis-le-Grand, close to the Place de l'Opéra in Paris. Many of his portrait photographs, often of theatre actors, may be found on the web. Tourtin made and presumably sold what is thought to be the first French reflex camera, the Orthoscope, an SLR for 9x12cm plates. The example cited, described by the auctioneer as a 'Luxus' example, has a varnished wooden body, and the reflex focusing screen is shaded beneath a red leather…"

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