Abstract: A compact apparatus of light-weight construction for the performance and simultaneous photographic recording of plate thermography is disclosed which comprises two similar elongated parallely extending rails to whose rear ends there is mounted upright, at right angles to and interconnecting them, a frame for holding a thermographic plate. A camera mount is secured to the front ends of the rails and interconnects them. At least one crossbar is secured to the rails and carries at each end a flash unit. A camera operating grip is mounted obliquely at the approximate center of gravity of the compact apparatus by means of a mounting bar interconnecting the two rails. The grip is provided with electric cables for tripping the flash unit and the camera. The frame includes a plastic channel for the vertical mounting of the thermograph plate internally adjacent thereto, thereby to leave the thermographic plate substantially free.