Stereo Spido (1)

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"The Stéréospido is a rigid, wooden-bodied stereo camera made by Gaumont in about 1900. It won the Grand Prix at the Expo of Paris in 1900, and "Grand Prix 1900" was imprinted on the front plate of later, similar Gaumont stereo cameras of the 1920s. It takes twelve 6×13cm or 8x16cm plates in an Elgé magazine back. It has a stereo shutter of the French shutter maker Decaux, with speeds up to 1/120 second. The focusing of the two lenses is linked with a bar, on which the distance scale is engraved. On the 8×16 model, the lenses focus from…"

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