Talk:Real photo postcard

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There were several cameras that made photo postcards but only one that I know of that would directly make a picture on a post card using a Polaroid like process. The others needed to be developed.

The Chicago Ferrotype Company produced the Mandel-ette Postcard Camera which made images on postcards of 2 1/2" x 3 1/2". The camera was patented in 1914 but the positive film process was patented in 1911. It was based on the Ferrotype process but was not on tin. It deserves recognition as an alternate picture processing format I believe. I have a photo made with this camera. Note that the postcard is really small and identifies this as Mandel's positive process, no negative.

Look at: http://www.vintagephoto.tv/index.shtml for three different cameras including the one described above and the one on the main page. There is enough information to clean up this page I think.

DaleDe (talk) 22:51, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Introduction

I've added an introductory paragraph and separated the bulk of the text below off as "History." The writing in general is pretty sloppy but the article needs the attention of someone who knows more about the subject than I do. I've done some clean-up but there's more work to be done. The article also leans too heavily on quoted material. The most immediate issue may be the confusing information about what year the RPPC was introduced. 850 C (talk) 19:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)

Did a little more work on the lead. I noticed:

• "In 1907, Kodak "created a service called 'Real Photo postcards,' enabling people to make a postcard from any picture they took" in 1907."

is the only sentence in the body describing Real photo postcards. So needs more work. Fountains of Bryn Mawr (talk) 18:21, 23 July 2014 (UTC)