 The Cyclope is a real oddity. It’s a French camera, made by Alsaphot. For many years the company made fairly straightforward, ordinary, not so say boring, cameras. Then, in the late 1950s, they produced this. It’s a rollfilm camera that takes 8 exposures on 120 film. But its unusual feature is the lens which is mounted at the top of the body, rather than in the traditional place in the centre. It utilises two mirrors to reflect the image back, down and then forward onto the film, which runs across the front of the camera. The red window, therefore, that you find on the back of most rollfilm cameras, is actually on the front. Return to home page |