This is an unusual, though not unique, style of camera, the patent describes a horizontally orientated camera, the production model has the twin lenses arranged vertically with the folding bed moved to the shorter side of the body. Illustrations show the camera fitted with a focusing scale and with the focusing knob on the other side of the bed. Oddly a view-finder was not included. Several lenses could be fitted, the viewing lens was either a T-P Pantoplanat or an anastigmat similar to the taking lens.

The camera did not prove popular; a plate camera with separate viewing lens does not have many advantages. If the photographer wanted to use a focusing screen a tripod would normally be used and the time taken to change the plate holder was immaterial, if used for hand-held exposures the eye-level focusing screen was quite difficult to use. Twin lens models came into their own when fitted with a reflex mirror and roll-film was used.