Bellows camera


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in photography, a form of camera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.
See under Bellows.

See also: Bellows, Camera

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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He used a traditional bellows camera fitted with a genuine Victorian lens for the photographs.
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Using his cord- activated bellows camera, he gathered workers for group portraits in places such as the Seavey hops fields and Southern Pacific railyards.
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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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