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view camera
(redirected from Bellows camera)

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view camera [′vyü ‚kam·rə]
(optics)
A camera that can be focused at both front and back, with adjustments for tilts, swings, shifts, and rise and fall, to control the shape of the subject in the image; it has a groundglass on the back which enables the photographer to view the image to be recorded.


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The 352 black and white photographs were mostly taken with a half-plate bellows camera made by Thornton Pickard in 1904, requiring a tripod, black cloth, and exposures as long as 15 minutes.
 
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