Camera, optics, widow S. Gecèle, 86 Grasmarkt, Brussels.
Wooden box covered with black skin, adjustable by rotating the lens, central viewfinder.
"Mr. Gecèle presents to the members a camera with a fixed lens, equipped with a changeable frame, designed to take snapshots. Optical viewfinders built into the box allow the photographer to see his subject and track moving objects. An ingenious arrangement facilitates changing aperture. A plate with openings of various diameters moves horizontally within the lens; so that with the help of a button placed outside the box, one or the other diaphragm is simply brought in the optical axis of the lens" Mr. Masson rightly points out that this camera is only an imitation of one made by M.J. De Neck.
(Bulletin de l'Association belge de photographie 15, 1888, p.77)