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In 1859 Thomas Skaife designed a camera, the pistolgraph, which by using a very wide aperture lens and relatively small glass plates, could be held in the hand for snapshot exposures - at a time when much heavier, tripod-based, large format cameras were usually used. An original pistolgraph camera is in the collection of the Science Museum, London.
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