The French Connection
Thanks to Jorge Delendatti, our friend in France, here is another early Thomson camera at work. Designed and made in France, one of Thomson’s distinguishing features through the 1950s and 60s were the lifting handles they added to their cameras. Here, you can see them under the chassis with a thoughtful detente in the center for the hand hold.
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“Stop looking at my va-jay-jay.” Gray’s Anatomy
The reason the handles have that ‘detente’ is so that when they are folded up, the two handles come together to form one hand-hold point.
I had four Thomson MC301’s.
…and how about that long focus handle ?