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== [[View camera|View]] camera == [[File:SandersonHandCamera.JPG|thumb|right|A Sanderson 'Hand' camera dating from circa 1899. The image was viewed on a ground glass at the back, under a flip-up cover. The flexible side shades helped seeing the dim image.]] These cameras had no separate viewfinder. The exact image (although upside-down and reversed left-right) was viewed on a [[ground glass]] installed either in a replaceable plateholder, or in a spring back where springs hold the ground glass at the focus plane until a photographic plateholder is slid in front of it. Spring backs usually had a flip-up cover protecting the ground glass. A black focusing cloth was used with larger models.
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