A Foca PF 3 (three stars) camera of 1947 at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris.

The Foca camera was a French-built brand of rangefinder cameras made by Optique & Précision de Levallois. Foucault pendulum at the Musée des arts et métiers The Musée des Arts et Métiers is a museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a depository for the preservation of scientific... A Foca camera of 1947 at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. ... Société Optique et Précision de Levallois, S.A. (OPL) was founded in 1919, although its predecessor dated from 1911. ...

The camera was designed in 1938, but the Second World War prevented its release, which finally occurred in 1945. The Foca models were named "PF" (for petit format, "small format") and distinguished by the number of stars. They had interchangeable lenses on a screw mounting. Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...

External links

• Guide to Classic Cameras
• Karen Nakamura's "photoethnography.com"
• The Foca Universal RC