Look at the back side of a box GAP 6x9. Is it not something similar to that do not remind you something. You do not find that it opens as an ancient flashlight ?

That's true ! Georges Paris, creator of the box cameras GAP started his career by making bodies for flashlight... By end of 1939, he decides to reorient its production to photographic cameras in metal sheet covered with fake leather.

This small box of a format 6x9 appears just at the end of the world war II. It will be produced from 1948 to 1950 and will have 8 successive versions. Differences between these ones are tiny.

Is has a meniscus lens of 120 mm - f/11 (unique aperture). The central shutter is a guillotine and has two speeds : "instantaneous" and pause "B".

The presented version has the locking system for the shutter release and the famous octogonal grid (but without the label "Made in France").

After removing carefully the decorative grid and the ring protecting the lens, I totally removed the leather skin from the front side (using hot water) taking care to not teared it up.