Olav Krog i Hamburg
Postcard: Mandel's positive Process - No negatives
The Mandelette Postcard Camera, manufactured by the Chicago Ferrotype Company of Chicago, Illinois USA, was introduced ca 1913. Apparently time has changed this camera's name to Mandelette. The hyphen has been dropped in modern usage.
This direct-positive camera with attached developing tank was marketed to street, or itinerant photographers. It produced photographic postcards on 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch direct-positive paper. The Mandelette and similar street cameras were portable and compact outfits. Due to their built-in processing capability, street photographers could offer the public inexpensive finished photographs on-the-spot.
Source: www.vintagephoto.tv/mandelette.shtml
Olav Krog i Hamburg
Postcard: Mandel's positive Process - No negatives
The Mandelette Postcard Camera, manufactured by the Chicago Ferrotype Company of Chicago, Illinois USA, was introduced ca 1913. Apparently time has changed this camera's name to Mandelette. The hyphen has been dropped in modern usage.
This direct-positive camera with attached developing tank was marketed to street, or itinerant photographers. It produced photographic postcards on 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch direct-positive paper. The Mandelette and similar street cameras were portable and compact outfits. Due to their built-in processing capability, street photographers could offer the public inexpensive finished photographs on-the-spot.
Source: www.vintagephoto.tv/mandelette.shtml