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Eigenbau Kamera Einer (unknown)

Eigenbau Kamera Einer (unknown)

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This is an Eigenbau Kamera, which is German for “home made camera”.  It uses regular 35mm film, but shoots very small images, probably around 12mm wide by 17mm tall.  A plate on the back of the camera reads “H. Wildbore Leicester” which suggests it was made in Leicester, England by…

June 9, 2022 June 9, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / England
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Ilford Witness (1953)

Ilford Witness (1953)

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This is an Ilford Witness, a 35mm rangefinder camera made in 1953 by Peto Scott Electrical Instruments for Ilford of London, England.  The Witness was a very ambitious camera, first designed in 1947 by ex employees of Leitz and Zeiss-Ikon.  It incorporated a unique hybrid screw/bayonet lens mount, focal plane…

April 7, 2022 April 7, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / England / Ilford
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Corfield Periflex 3 (1957)

Corfield Periflex 3 (1957)

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This is a Corfield Periflex 3, an innovative 35mm reflex camera produced by K.G. Corfield Ltd., of Wolverhampton, England between the years 1957 and 1960.  The Periflex 3 was part of a series of cameras that use a small reflex mirror and focusing prism mounted to a mechanism that can…

February 15, 2022 February 15, 2022 Photography / Reviews  35mm / Corfield / England
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Purma Special (1937)

Purma Special (1937)

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This is a Purma Special, an all Bakelite snapshot camera produced by Purma Camera, Ltd., England starting in 1937.  The Purma Special shoots sixteen 32mm x 32mm images on 127 roll film.  It is a simple fixed focus camera with an extremely unique gravity controlled metal blade focal plane three…

June 1, 2021 June 1, 2021 Photography / Reviews  127 / England / Purma
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Ensign Ful-Vue (1946)

Ensign Ful-Vue (1946)

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What is it? This is an Ensign Ful-Vue box camera made by Barnet Ensign Ltd. of Walthamstow, England between the years 1946 and 1949.  This was the second camera named the Ensign Ful-Vue to be released, the first released in 1939 was a more traditional cube shaped box camera made by…

July 24, 2017 April 9, 2018 Photography / Reviews  120 / England / Ensign
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