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| ENSIGN CUPID | Année / year c.1922 This is a simple but attractive metal-bodied camera for 4x6cm pictures on 120 film. Its strange design is based on a 1921 prototype for a stereo camera which was never produced (McKeown's info). It has a Meniscus achromatic f11 lens in a simple shutter I and T. Shutter is cocked by pulling up the metal rod on top of the nose of the camera and it's released with the little knob on side. The lever is used to change shutter settings I and T. Available in black, blue, grey and perhaps other colors. This model has the two viewers intact and its metal strap. Sometimes the two riveted plates (model name and patent on front and instructions for use on back) are black and engraved with white text and some other models (like this one) have shiny plates with prominent text.
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| ENSIGN MIDGET model 33 |
Année / year c.1934-40 Very compact metal folding camera for 3,5 x 4 cm pictures on Lukos E-10 paper-backed film. Designed byMagnus Niell (swedish engineer and designer) who also designed the Expo Watch camera and the Ensignette . It has a folding frame finder and also a reversible reflecting finder. Fixed focus meniscus lens Ensar Anastigmat f6.3, with two apertures. Shutter B, T, 25-50-100. The Midget was available in 3 models, the basic 22, the 33 shown here and the 55. Based on the same body, they varied in shutter and lenses fitted.
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| ENSIGNETTE N°1 | Année / year c. 1909-1927 SN P10797 Little folding rollfilm camera of the bedless strut type. Curious extensions on both ends of the front panel : these seems to serve as table stands. This is the model 1 for 36 x 56 mm pictures on E1 film (brass body). Simple rotary shutter with I , B and T settings in f11-f16-f22 lens. With worn original case.
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| ENSIGNETTE N°1 |
Année / year c. 1909-1927 SN K165 Similar camera to the model shown above but with some variations : - Time and Instant shutter (T, I) - Aperture setting by a lever on front instead of a rotary disk around the lens. - Cover on the red window on back
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| FUL-VUE | *Année / year c. 1946 This is the post-war model of this cute little camera for 6 x 6cm pictures on 120 rollfilm. Very interesting design. It's a metal box camera with black crackle-finish enamel (coloured models exist in green, red, grey). Rounded top with large brilliant viewfinder. Focuses by pulling the lens out or pushing it back in... Simple shutter with Instant and Time features.
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| ENSIGN E29 | *Année / year c. 1930's Blue box camera with a swing away portrait attachment (often found without the attachment). Altie Bacon gave some informations about the E29 film used with this camera : "Many people confuse 129 (less well known) with 127. The format of E29 was 2X3 inches or alternatively depending on the maker (mostly German) 5X7/5X7.5/5X8cm , it seems that there was no precise agreement which is strange as it apparently did not occur with other sizes". Shutter speeds T and I (instant, roughly 25th/sec).
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| PURMA SPECIAL | *Année / year 1937 This is a camera of unusual design (designed by Raymond Loewy (French, 1893-1986; active USA from 1919) manufactured by R.F. Hunter, Ltd. The Purma Special is very special : - It was the first camera for the popular market featuring an acrylic lens (an innovation that made it significantly less expensive than cameras with optical glass). - Almost wholly phenolic resin construction (bakelite). - Automatic telescoping lens (springs out on its own when the screwing lens cap is removed). - Speeds controlled by gravity : the manually cocked metal focal plane shutter incorporates a pivoting weight that ingeniously regulates the width of the slit opening. With the camera used in the normal horizontal position, this mechanism yields a shutter speed rated at 1/150, but when held perpendicular to the ground, a speed of 1/25 or 1/450, depending on which end is up. Since the camera is set up for square exposures on 127 rollfilm (16 pictures, each 31 x 31 mm). The lens is an f 6.3 Beck Anastigmat fixed focus (57mm focal lenght). Built-in direct vision viewfinder.
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