ANSCO camera company
This is a No. 1A Automatic Ansco, a folding roll film camera made by the Ansco Company of Binghamton, New York starting in 1924. The Automatic Ansco was Ansco’s top of the line camera in the 1920s, featuring a faster f/6.3 Anastigmat lens, a 7 speed Universal Ilex shutter, and…
This is an Ansco / GAF Memo II Automatic, a 35mm half frame camera produced by Ricoh in 1964 for Ansco of Binghamton, New York. The Memo II Automatic is a name variant of the Ricoh Auto Half which had been in production since 1963, and is also an updated…
This is an Anscoflex II, a twin lens box camera made by Ansco of Binghamton, New York between the years 1954 and 1958. The Anscoflex II is a more advanced version of the original Anscoflex which was introduced a few months earlier. The only difference is the addition of two…
It seems like every few months, another press release is made by Kodak or Fuji with bad news about some film stock that is being discontinued and others that are getting price increases. These announcements inevitably launch a buying frenzy of still available films that quickly deplete available inventories at…
This is an ANSCO Color Clipper, a rigid bodied scale focus camera that shoots 6cm x 6cm images on 120 format roll film. The Color Clipper was part of ANSCO’s Clipper line which first went into production in the mid 1930s. Like all Clippers that came before it, the Color…
This is an ANSCO Memo, a compact 35mm box camera that shoots 18mm x 24mm exposures on double perforated 35mm cinema film. The Memo first went on sale in 1927 and predates Kodak’s type 135 film format, using it’s own proprietary “Memo Cassettes” which can accept bulk 35mm film, but…
This is an ANSCO Automatic Reflex 3.5 twin lens reflex camera, made by ANSCO of Binghamton, NY starting in 1947. It shot 6cm x 6cm images on 120 format roll film and had a feature set that compared favorably to top tier TLRs from Germany. The ANSCO Reflex was an…
What is it? This is an ANSCO Super Regent 35mm folding rangefinder camera, made between the years 1955 and 1959 for ANSCO by AGFA Camera Werk in Munich, Germany. The Super Regent is a rebadged AGFA Super Solinette, but sold by ANSCO in the United States. Both the Super Solinette…
This is an Anscomark M 35mm rangefinder camera made in 1960 by Riken Optical Co., Ltd. (Ricoh) for GAF USA who at the time distributed cameras in the United States under the ANSCO brand. The camera was developed by Riken for GAF in exchange for some of it’s photocopier technologies. The…
The front plate on this camera says it is an AGFA B2 Commander, which is a folding camera from the 1940s that takes 120 roll film and uses scale focus. Beyond that, I have struggled to find more information about this little camera online. What little I can find is…
