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The camera body is of sheet material. When in a usage condition it has four intersecting panels, each in the form of an arched segment. The arched panels are in two pairs, each pair being mutually opposed. One opposed pair is outward-concave, and the other is outward-convex. When squeezed together,

The camera body is of sheet material. When in a usage condition it has four intersecting panels, each in the form of an arched segment. The arched panels are in two pairs, each pair being mutually opposed. One opposed pair is outward-concave, and the other is outward-convex. When squeezed together, the concave panels brace and stabilize the convex panels: the body is inherently strong and stable in its usage condition. When in a storage condition the same body has just two planar, parallel panels－readily carried in a wallet, or distributed by a mail in a magazine. A light-sensitive medium is held within the body. Mounted to the body is a lens for focusing a scene onto the sensitive medium, and a positively interlocked single-shot shutter mechanism for controlling passage of light through the lens. The sheet material, preferably all one piece, is scored along circular-segmental lines. Squeezing two opposite edges together, when the body is in the storage condition, forces the material to fold along the scores, forming the four arched panels, to place the body in the usage condition. Two of the arched panels have predefined widths, to correctly space apart the other two－and thereby the lens and the light-sensitive medium－for focusing of a scene by the lens onto the sensitive medium.

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A credit-card-size, one-shot camera for storage in a wallet or the like, and inclusion and distribution in a magazine, envelope or the like; and for use by a person in making a photograph of a scene; and comprising: a body of sheet material which has a thickness, said body including: a rear panel th

A credit-card-size, one-shot camera for storage in a wallet or the like, and inclusion and distribution in a magazine, envelope or the like; and for use by a person in making a photograph of a scene; and comprising: a body of sheet material which has a thickness, said body including: a rear panel that has a periphery and that carries, along an interior surface, a light-sensitive medium which has a thickness, and a front panel that is perforated to admit light to expose the light-sensitive medium, and that has a periphery whose entire length is substantially directly sealed to or directly continuous with the rear panel periphery; mounted to the perforated front panel, a lens for focusing such a scene onto the light-sensitive medium, and a shutter mechanism for controlling passage of light through the lens; the entire light-sensitive medium lying substantially directly against the front panel, lens and shutter mechanism, when the body is in a first condition for storage in such a wallet or the like; wherein, when the body is in said first condition, the body has overall thickness, at said peripheries, not exceeding three thicknesses of the sheet material; and at the lens and shutter mechanism, substantially not exceeding two thicknesses of the sheet material plus one thickness of the light-sensitive medium, plus the thickness of the lens and shutter mechanism; scores formed in the front and rear panels and defining: upper portions of both the front and rear panels, mutually contiguous along said peripheries, lower portions of both the front and rear panels, mutually contiguous along said peripheries, and remaining front and rear intermediate portions between the respective upper and lower portions; said upper and lower contiguous portions, when the body is in a second condition for making such a photograph, cooperating to define temporary top and bottom panels respectively; said temporary panels having predefined widths to space apart said remaining front and rear portions substantially correctly for focusing of such a scene by the lens onto the light-sensitive medium.