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The French Connection

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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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4 responses to “The French Connection”

  1. Bobby Reyes

    …and how about that long focus handle ?

  2. Jeffery Haas

    I had four Thomson MC301’s.

  3. Dennis Degan

    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.

  4. Albert J. McGilvray

    “Stop looking at my va-jay-jay.” Gray’s Anatomy

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