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'Kombi' Combined Camera and Viewer

The first miniature ('detective') camera to take rollfilm made for it by Eastman Kodak Co. It took 25 circular exposures 38 mm in diameter. The meniscus lens is missing. There is a simple sector shutter and no viewfinder. When used as a
viewer (or 'graphoscope') the negatives printed as positives on a roll of film were placed in the camera and viewed through the lens. The camera was first shown at the Columbian Exposition of 1893.

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