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Ihagee Rulex camera

Item is an early folding plate camera with a Rulex triple anastigmat F13, 1:4 lens and an unmarked compound shutter. Includes both a brilliant viewfinder and optical direct finder.

Brownie Target SIX-20

For 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. exposure on 620 film Acromatic lens, 2 aperture settings, rotary shutter. Metal and leatherette case. Case will not separate to open camera.

Kodak Duaflex II

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 620 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder; it is a simple box camera design. The f8 lens has a 3 aperture settings.

Voigtlander Brilliant

Item is a mock twin lens reflex camera with Bakelite body and metal fittings, for use with 120 roll film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder used only to frame the view and not to focus.

No. 3 Brownie camera, model B

Item is a wooden box camera with leatherette covering for large 8.25 x 10.8 cm (3.25 x 4.25") exposures on 124 film. The design is simple, with a fixed focus and shutter speed. The roll film was advanced past the lens manually with a small crank. The original sales price was $4.00.

Anscoflex

Item is an all-metal camera designed by Raymond Loewy for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 620 film. Designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera, the topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder, it is a simple box camera design with a two element Meniscus F11 lens and fixed 1/60th shutter speed. The front panel slides up to reveal the lens and viewfinder.

Olympus OM-2 camera

Item is a 35mm camera, similar to the Olympus OM-1 MD, but fully automatic aperture-priority metering. World's first camera with OTF (off-the-film) metering. Chrome. Item comes with 2 manuals.

Olympus Optical Company Limited

Kiev-4

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera with a smaller and more sensitive exposure meter than the Kiev-3 and 3A. This was an imitation of the CONTAX II, it was built after the original tools had been removed from the Zeiss factory at Jena. The lens is a Jupiter-8M, f=2/50mm.

Kiev

Assorted camera filters

Item contains the following filters:

1 Olympus 55mm Skylight 1A
1 Fuji Film Light Balancing Filter A2 for Fujica Single-8
1 Kodak Series VII Daylight Filter for Type A film
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-10M
1 Kodak Series VI yello color filter
1 Omag filter 40
1 Canon close up lens uv filter 72mm 1100
1 Kenko LBW10 49 orange filter
1 Kodak #2 yellow filter (glass only)
1 Kodak Series VI Kodachrome Haze filter
1 Kodak #13 Close-up attachment
1 Kodak Series V Wratten Filter
1 Kodak Wrattan filter # 54 B
1 Kodak series VI adapter ring 31.5mm
1 Kodak Series 4 daylight filter for type A color films No. 85
1 Kodak Close-up attachment No. 6A
1 Kodak Series VI adapter ring 31.5mm with UV filter
1 Kodak Series V wratten filter A
1 Kodak orange filter, glass only
1 Kodak cloud filter No. 13
1 Kodak Series 5 daylight filter for type F color film
1 Kodak Series 6 Skylight filter No. 1A
1 Kodak Series VI Wratten filter No. 85B
1 Hoya 40.5 85B
1 walz UV filter
1 EdnaLite filter 514
1 EdnaLite filter 601
1 Voigtlander G1/37 mm
1 Walz red filter for Argus C-3
1 Walz #112 1A filter
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-05M
1 Kodak Series VI color compensating filter CC-10C
1 Eumig Makro filter
1 Zeiss Ikon 351/6 graduated yellow filter
1 Carl Zeiss Jena Proxar 0.67 x 37
1 Zeiss Ikon 988/12 yellow filter
1 Sharplite optical filters Type A 21.5
1 Harrison corrector disc
1 Minolta color filter set for Minolta-16 II
1 Polaroid light polarizing series VI filter
1 Kodak Wratten gelatin No. 1A Skylight filter
1 Lee filters sample set
1 roscolene filter sample set
1 Minolta filter set
1 Canon 72mm No. 4x
1 Zeiss Ikon Contapol 4x polarizing filter
1 No. 1 58mm filter
1 Kodak series VI wrattan filter A red filter
1 Aroma 55mm No. 2 filter
1 Optex 52mm UV filtre
1 1 m - 40" filter
1 2 m - 80"
1 Tiffen 49mm Hazan filter
1 B+W 50mm ES 101 filter
2 Toshiba 52mm SL-1A filter
1 Kodak series V adapter ring 25.5mm with series V wrattan filter no. 85 B
1 Sepia filter (glass only)
1 Kodak FIV/32 -1.5 L=3x orange filter
1 Lifa Tagesslicht
1 red filter (glass only)
1 Impakt 1A 55mm filter
1 Toshiba 52mm SL-1A
1 yellow filter (glass only)
1 Tiffen 67mm 80 B blue filter
1 Toshiba 72mm SL-1A filter
1 set of Crown 52mm close up filters
1 Utilo filter Wratten K-2 No. 8 yellow filter
1 set Kodak Cmbinaion filter series VI

Vivitar 2500

Electronic Flash - semi-automatic for hot shoe or synch-cabled cameras. In original box, with instruction manual and warranty card.

Vivitar Corporation

Soligor tele-auto 1:6.3 400mm

Item has interchanghable mount - similar concept to Tamron's adaptall mount. The item has a Nkion mount adapter.American Allied Impex Corporation manufactured photographic equipment under the Soligor brand commencing in 1956.

American Allied Impex Corporation

Early cameras

This series consists of original and duplicate early cameras from the beginning of the history of photography. Based on the basic design of the camera obscura and produced between about 1820 and 1870, these simple devices were usually solid or sliding box cameras with uncomplicated lenses. The shutter was normally outside of the lens, in the form of a lens cap that was simple removed and replaced for exposure, or a rotating metal plate on the front of the lens, which held the aperture. These cameras mainly predated dry plate and flexible film photography, and were used to take Daguerreotype, wet-plate and salted paper photographs.

To browse the individual items in this series, click on the "View the list" link under the "File and item records are available for this series" title (to the right of the page).

No. 2 Cartridge Hawkeye Model C

Item is a leatherette covered box camera for exposures on 120 film. Originally designed and produced by the Boston Camera Company, Hawk-Eye camera production changed hands twice, once in 1890 when sold to the Blair Camera Company, then again in 1907, when Eastman Kodak purchased the company. Simple lens and rotary shutter.

Kodak Pony 828

Item is a small, Bakelite camera for 8 exposures on 828 format roll film (developed by Kodak in 1935 and similar in size to 135 film, without sprocket holes). The camera features a simple viewfinder, 51mm f 4.5 lens and a 4 speed Flash 200 shutter.

Argus 264 Instant Load

Item is an instant load 126 cartridge film camera with an 44 mm Argus Cintar lens. The camera features fixes shutter speed, auto exposure using a selenium cell and has a flashcube socket, tripod socket, and automatic film speed sensing.

Ansco Shur-Flash

Item is an inexpensive box camera made of fiberboard and covered with imitation leather. The camera has a Gallileo-type viewfinder only (no brilliant viewfinder), flash contacts, and a single speed shutter that is fast enough to accommodate bulb flashes. It used 120 size roll film.

Action Tracker ADI

Item is a small, plastic novelty camera that shoots four consecutive photos on one frame of 35 mm film. The rotating shutter exposes them in sequence, at intervals of about 0.22 sec.The result is four images on a single negative that show the movement of a subject in phases. The process uses the same concepts as the stop-motion animation used by Eadweard Muybridge in his Animal Locomotion series of the late 1800's. The camera is a very simple design and has no focusing or aperture control and a simple sports style viewfinder. The shutters are fixed at 1/100 of a second.

Rolleiflex Grey Baby

Item is a knob-advance twin lens reflex camera for 4 x 4 cm exposures on 127 format film. More compact than other twin lens reflex cameras, with a smaller negatives, the Grey Body has a Xenar f3.5 lens with a Syncrho compur shutter. The camera comes in a gray leather case and is equipped with an ultra violet Waltz filter and a lens hood.

Konica 1

Item is a 35mm camera stamped "Made in Occupied Japan", which began a long history of Konica cameras made for export. The shutter was mounted on the top of a fixed tube.

Konishiroku Photo Ind, Co., Ltd.

Zeiss Ikon Tenax I

Item is a simple camera for 50 exposures ( 24x24mm ) on regular 35mm film . It was built 1939 t0 1941, the low serial No indicates a small production of this camera , possibly because of the war.
The foldable lever transported the film and cocked the Compur shutter.
The lens is a non exchangeable Zeiss Novar Anastigmat 1:3.5 with a focal length of 35mm. The Viewfinder is a simple Newton finder , it is folded onto the body Focusing by front lens in a simple helical mounting.

Agfamatic II

Item is a 35 mm rangefinder camera manufactured in Munich, Germany. Exposure indicator in the viewfinder shows a green light for correct exposure and a red light for underexposed scenes.

Contax 137 MA Quartz

Item is an automatic exposure single-lens reflex 35mm camera. Metering is center-weighted and aperture priority.

Wooden shutter

Item is a wooden time shutter that could be mounted on any plate camera. Is still functional. The spring wound mechanism oerates a sil curtain to open and close.

Nikkor-S.C auto 1:1.4 f=50mm

Item is a lens, first introduced in 1962, which became the most popular lens manufactured by Nikon with 4 million being produced. The lens is composed of seven elements in five groups with a picture angle of 46 degrees at infinity. The distance scale is graduated in meters and feet up to 0.6 m and 2 feet. The aperture scale is 1.4 to 16 with a fully automatic aperture diaphragm. The item comes with a Toshiba 52mm sl-1a filter and front and rear caps.

Takumar-A zoom 1:3.5-4.5 28-80mm

Item is a lens in constructed of 8 elements in 8 groups, has an aperture range from f3.5 (4.5) to f22 (32) with a maximum focusing distance of .24 m. The filter diameter is 58mm. A Rolev M.G. 58mm Sky filter is included.

Micro-Nikkor 55mm 1:3.5

Item is a Micro-Nikkor 55mm lens is composed of 5 elements in 4 groups with a picture angle of 43 degrees. The distance Item is scale is graduated in meters and feet from 0.241m (9.5 in.) to infinity. Tthe aperture scale is f3.5 to f32. The lens is fitted with black rubber focusing ring front and the filter diameter is 52mm.

Bouncemaster

A Very sophisticated flash gun with folded circular reflector, exposure slide rule, and test lamp. Allows setting for open flash (reflector folded). It can use two sizes of flash bulbs. Battery is a Mallory M505 - 22.5 volts. The reflector can tilt 90 degrees upward. PC camera cord is missing. The letters E. B. are visible above the hot shoe.

Accura

Baby Hawkeye

Item is a small box camera for 4 x 6.5 cm (1.57" x 2.55") exposures on 127 format roll film. Manufactured in England circa 1936, the camera is an all-metal box with a unidentified lens and a simple Kodak shutter. It has a simple wire viewfinder.

No. 2A Antar

Item is a simple, wooden box camera with leatherette covering and brass trim, for use with 116 roll film (or D6 and D12 Agfa film).

Minolta 16II Kit

Item is a silver subminiature camera, for 10 x 14 mm exposures on 16mm film. In original box, includes Minolta brand colour print film, camera case, strap and tripod mount.

Argoflex EF

Item is a metal twin lens reflex camera for 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" exposures on 620 format roll film. Coupled front lens focusing.

Nikkormat EL

Item is a 35 mm camera with a 4 second - 1/1000th of a second vertical shutter and interchangeable lenses with aperture priority auto-exposure. Attached lens is a 1:3.2 18mm accura/sigma.

Nikon Corporation

Konica Autoreflex T

Item is the first Japanese 35mm SLR camera. The "T" model has automatic TTL shutter-priority metering. It has a Konica Hexanon 1:4 f=21mm lens, serial #7028597, and also includes a Konica Hexanon 1:2.8 100mm lens serial #7230688.

Konishiroku Photo Ind, Co., Ltd.

Ansco Memo

Item is a leather covered wooden box camera. The Ansco Memo is a single frame, fixed focus which takes landscape oriented images. Film is advanced by pushing down on a lever in the back of the camera. While not the first American camera made for 35mm film, it is the first to sell in abundant quantities.

Kodak Weekend 35

Item is a disposable camera, with plastic body and lens. This model was adapted with a special plastic overbody for underwater use.

Eastman Kodak Company

Kodak K350 camera

Item is a small 35mm automatic camera with builit-in electronic flash. New in box and loaded with unexposed film, batteries have been removed. Also comes with spare roll of 12 exposure 35mm Kodacolor Gold 100 film.

Wilhelm E. Nassau and Wilfrid Laurier University Media collection

  • F 2011.018
  • Fonds
  • 1969-2011

Fonds consists of records the Wilhelm E. Nassau created during his time at Wilfrid Laurier University, working in the development of the Audio-Visual department as a professor and curator of an extensive collection of photographic and film cameras and technology. This collection was amassed for the purpose of teaching students of the university and was curated by Nassau over the span of fourty years. Cameras were collected from students, faculty, and employees as well as purchased from local camera shows. The collection traced the history and development of the tools used in these fields. The collection was donated to both Brock University (motion picture and video materials) and the Ryerson University Library and Archives (still photography materials). Objects in the donation were distributed amoung the Heritage Camera Collection (2005.006), the Photography and Film Technology Collection (2005.005), and the Photographic Publications Collection (2005.003).

Polaroid Wink light

Item is an electronic flash for the Polaroid Land camera, designed to fill in shadows from indoor lighting. The flash could fire 100 times before having to replace the bulb.

Polaroid Corporation

No. 2C Brownie camera

Item is a fairly large box camera, for 6 7.5 x 12.7 cm (3 x 5") exposures on Kodak 130 film. Simple lens and rotary shutter.

Kodak Brownie 127

Item is an eye-level box camera with Bakelite body and rounded edges. Lens is a Meniscus f 14, 65mm and the shutter is single speed, 1/50th.

Univex model A

Item is a small, Bakelite camera with a frame viewfinder. This was a proprietary camera design, which used No.00, 6 exposure film only made by the Universal Camera Corporation. Norton Camera filed a patent lawsuit filed against the Universal company after the product was released. Norton had been in talks with Universal to produce the camera originally. Universal eventually won the case and purchased the Norton Camera company. The camera originally sold for 39 cents.

Praktica FX3

Item is an 35mm reflex camera with a waist-level viewfinder and a non auto-return mirror. Manufactured in Soviet controlled East Germany, the company and the Desden factory closed after reunification. The lens is a Meyer Gorlitz Domiplan 1:2.8/50mm.

Mamiya C3 Professional

Item is a medium format twin lens reflex camera for 6 x 6 cm exposures on 120 roll film. Marketed as a professional camera, lenses are interchangeable (both the upper and lower lenses are removed together) without exposing the film. Extra lens included (Mamiya-Secor f4.5, 65 - 135 mm with a Seikosha - S shutter 1 - 1/500 sec.)

Exakta VXIIa

Item is a 35mm camera, the first with interchangeable bayonet-mount lenses. This one has a Carl Zeiss Jena Biotar 2/58 lens (serial A# 5545070).

Contax 137 MA Quartz

Item is a 35mm camera with a built in electric 3 frames per second motor winder powered by four AA batteries that also run the metering and shutter timing. The camera has modes for aperture priority and manual.

Video cameras

Series contains hand-held, shoulder-mounted, or structurally-attached cameras that use electronic components to record moving images and sound. Most items in this series are for home use. For cameras that record moving images using digital components, see the Digital and Pre-digital cameras series.

To browse the individual items in this series, click on the "View the list" link under the "File and item records are available for this series" title (to the right of the page).

Weisblatt, Betty

Linhof Technika lenses

Item is a lens for 4 x 5 in. exposures on sheet film Schneider-Kreuznach symmar f6.8/130 mm. lens, Compur-Synchro shutter 1-1/500 sec. Includes 2 other lenses: Scheider-Kreuznach symmar 1:5.6 135 mm, and the other is 1:5.6 240mm. Both have Compur shutters. This camera is considered to be the ultimate for architecture and technical photography. It is still on the market and still used by professionals.

Various flash bulbs

Flash bulbs in boxes (PT11)
3 boxes GE Twelve M2B Flashbulbs
2 boxes GE Flashcubes
2 boxes GE MagiCubes
1 box GE Super Cubes
3 boxes AG-1B Flashbulbs
1 box GE PH/SM Photoflash lamps
1 GE Photoflash 22
1 GE Lamp
1 box GE Synchro-Press 5B Photoflash
2 GE projection lamp
1 box GE 5B flashbulbs
1 box GE number 6 sure-fire flash bulbs

Flashbulbs in Boxes (PT11)
1 box Sylvania Flashbulbs M2B blue dot
1 box Sylvania Flashbulbs M3B blue dot
1 package Amplex photoflash type 5
2 boxes Sylvania blue dot Magicubes
1 box Sylvania blue dot flashcubes
1 box Diramic Flip Flash super 10
1 package Philips topflash
1 package GE Flip Flash II
1 box Sylvania Superflash M25
1 box GE M3 flashbulbs (box only)
1 box Westinghouse M2B
1 box Westinghouse M2 clear
1 box Sylvania Light Bulb
1 box Westinghouse Photoflash bulbs
1 Rollei projector bulb
1 box Sylvania Superflash class M
1 Wabash Photolamp Corp. No. 0 Super Flash photolamp
1 GE Flip Flash II (no box)
1 Sylvania Flash Bar (no box)

Unsorted loose bulbs (PT12)
3 sylvania Wabash Superflash No. 2
4 Phillips PF5
1 GE Lucalox LU150/55
1 GE 6
2 Phillips Photoflux
1 GE Photo Flash no. 22
1 GE Edison Maza Photoflash no. 22
2Sylvania P25
1 Phillips PF 1/97
3 Sylvania M-2 (Blue dot)
1 unknown
1 unknown blue dot flash bulb
1 Westinghouse photoflash 11
2 unknown medium blue dot flash bulb
2 Sylvania M-25
1 GE ELN. No. 113
1 GE SM 2
3 GE flashcube
4 GE Magicube
4 Sylvania Blue Dot Magicube
1 ITT Flashcube
1 small Westinghouse frosted
1 small GE frosted
1 small GE
1 Phillips PF 1
1 Philips PP 1R
1 Phillips PP 1
1 AG 1 flashbulb
1 blue AG3B flashbulb

Various flash attachments

1 - 1 Kodak Instant Flash Model A
2 - 1 Brownie Flasholder for Brownie Reflex Camera
3 - 1 Lumex Dual B.C. flashgun
4 - 1 Dimension 32 flashgun
5 - 1 Secord BC type fan flashgun
6 - 1 Minicam Synchron flasholder
7 - 1 Kodalite Flasholder Lumaclad Reflector
8 - 1 Anglo fan flasgun
9 - 1 Kobold fan flasgun
10 - 1 Vivitar RS-1 remote sensor
11 - 1 Ilford Sportslite fan flasgun
12 - 1 Lumex Dual B.C. Flashgun
13 - 1 R. & H. fan flashgun
14 - Sunset Super Deluxe model 1500 BC Bounce Gun
15 - Polaroid Wink LIght Flasher 256
16 - Alpex Deluxe Swivel Flash Gun B.C. type
17 - Agfa Tilly flash gun

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