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Polaroid 600 Business Edition Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body and neck strap, that usually retails for around $20. Comes in a display box with a manual. Features include: 116 mm f/11 single-element plastic lens with close-up mode, an electronic shutter with speeds ranging from 1/4 - 1/200 sec and a built-in electronic flash with a manual override button. Photos are exposed automatically. Serial number is A270596VH.

Polaroid 5S Neutral Density Filter

Item is a Polaroid neutral density filter that comes in a plastic case. This kind of filter reduces the volume of light without affecting colour tones and allows photographers to use slow shutter speeds bringing fluidity to their photographs, making them ideal for shooting outdoors.

Polaroid 455 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body, and usually sells for around $30. It has a built-in mechanical development timer, the lens is 114 mm f/8.8 3-element glass and the photo exposure is automatic. The shutter is electronic and speeds range from 1/1200 to 10 sec. The viewfinder has projected framelines and automatic parallax compensation. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash, but the bulb is missing. Serial number is DS101552.

Polaroid 450 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body. It comes with a manual. It originally retailed for $164.95, but now usually sells for around $80. For a flash, it uses a Polaroid focused flash and the viewfinder is a single-window Zeiss Ikon. The lens is 3 element glass and the timer is electronic. The aperture control options are: f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42, and shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is DX274289.

Polaroid 440 Photoelectric Shutter

Item is a Poalroid photoelectric shutter, comes in a cardboard box with a carrying pouch, to be used with Polaroid camera models 95A, 95B, 100 (rollfilm), 150, 160, 700, and 800. It gives automatic exposure capabilities to the cameras and designed for use only with 3000-speed film. The #440 has a fixed aperture of f/54 and speeds ranging between 1/10 and 1/800 sec.

Polaroid 440 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera, with a plastic body, that now usually sells for around $35. It comes with a manual. There is manual exposure control and a rangefinder/viewfinder with projected frame lines and parallax correction. The lens is 114 mm 3-element glass and apertures control options are: f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42. Prints are exposed automatically and there is a Polaroid focused flash. Serial number is CX444492.

Polaroid 430 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, that originally retailed for $79.95, but now sells for around $20. It comes with a manual. It comes with a Polaroid focused flash, the timer is mechanical and the lens is 3 element glass. There is also a separate rangefinder focus and parallax-corrected viewfinder. The options for aperture control are f/8.8 and f/42 and the shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is BX17353.

Polaroid 360 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body and comes in a display box, with an electronic, rechargeable flash and fast charger(Model 363). The introduction of an electronic flash was new, however they were not automatic and Polaroid had to design a complicated shuttering system to control the output of the flash. As a result, the flash was dropped from future cameras, likely due to the expense. The camera originally sold for $199.95, but now usually retails for around $60. The viewfinder is a single window Zeiss Ikon and the lens is 3 element glass. There is an electronic timer and tripod socket, as well. The aperture control options are: f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42 and the shutter speed varies from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is BU253606.

Polaroid 360

Item is a folding rangefinder snapshot camera for instant photographs using Polaroid proprietary SX-70 film. Designed for use with a separate flash unit.

Polaroid 35mm OneFilm Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera, with a plastic body and a wrist strap, that usually sells for around $10. Item has a built-in electronic flash and manual exposure control through a lighten/darken switch. Serial number is 082-3.

Polaroid 35mm Focus Free Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. Features include: a built-in autoflash, manual exposure control by a light/darken switch, a focus-free lens with red-eye reduction. Serial number is T-064-C.

Polaroid 35mm Autofocus

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. Features include: a built-in flash, manual exposure control by a light/darken switch, an autofocus lens with red-eye reduction. Serial number is T-094-C.

Polaroid 350 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body, originally retailing for $149.95, but now selling for around $70. The flash uses and M3 bulb and the camera comes with a Model 268 flash unit, as well as a Polaroid Meter model 625. There is a single window Zeiss Ikon viewfinder, the lens is 3 element glass, a tripod socket, and there is an electronic timer. The aperture control options are f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42 and the shutter speed varies from 1/1200 to 10 sec.

Polaroid 340 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, that now usually sells for around $30. There is a fold-up viewfinder assembly with two windows, one with the instant split-image rangefinder and separate framing window. The lens is 114 mm 3-element glass. The aperture control options are f8.8-45 and the shutter speeds range from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is BE246444.

Polaroid 335 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, originally retailing for $79.95, but now selling for around $20. It comes with a manual. The flash uses an M3 bulb, there is a separate rangefinder focus and a parallax-corrected viewfinder. The lens is 3 element glass and an electronic timer. The aperture control options are f/8.8, f/42 and shutter speed varies from 1/1200 to 10 secs. This model builds on the Polaroid model 330, with an electronic development timer, instead of a mechanical one. Serial number is BC417479.

Polaroid 330 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, that originally retailed for $79.95, but now sells for approximately $30. It comes with two manuals. The flash uses an M3 bulb and there is a separate rangefinder focus, as well as a parallax-corrected viewfinder. The lens is made from 3 element glass and there is a mechanical timer. The options for aperture control are: f/8.8, f/42 and the shutter speed varies from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is BC224546.

Polaroid 320 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera, with a plastic body and lens housing, selling for around $30 now and originally retailing for $59.95. It comes with a manual. This model was the lowest priced folding pack film camera Polaroid produced, as part of their goal to make the camera affordable for any budget. This means the camera was lighter and easier to transport, than others in the series. The lens is 2 element plastic 114mm f8.8. It also has automatic exposure capabilities with an external electric eye light meter beside the lens and manual exposure compensation. The camera has a parallax viewfinder with a distance estimator in the eyepiece, and a separate rangefinder focus window. The aperture control options are f/8.8, f/42 and shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is BB495487.

Polaroid 315 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, originally retailing for $55.95, but now selling for around $30. It comes with a manual. The flash uses a M3 bulb, the viewfinder is an imagesizer (this was found not to be a good viewfinder, causing many blurry photos, and it was not reproduced in Polaroid's next series), and the lens is made of 2 element plastic. The aperture control options are: f/8.8, f/42 and shutter speeds vary from 1/1200 to 10 sec. Model 315 borrows heavily from Model 210. Serial number is BA128478.

Polaroid 3000 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body and neck strap, that sells for around $20. Camera comes with a Magicflash electronic flash unit. It is similar to the Pronto! RF, but produced for the international market. It has a rangefinder and an automatic light meter, with exposure able to be adjusted manually. The lens is 116 mm, f 9.4 plastic. Serial number is BNM616AA.

Polaroid 240 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body. It comes with a manual. It has a separate rangefinder focus and parallax-corrected viewfinder and there is a socket for a tripod. The flash is an M3 bulb and the lens is 3 element glass. The aperture control options are f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42 and the shutter speed is 1/1200 to 10 sec. It originally retailed for $129.95, but now usually sells for around $25. Serial number is ZB185021.

Polaroid 225 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body, that originally retailed for $84.95, but now sells for around $20. The flash uses an M3 bulb and it comes with a Model 268 unit. There is a separate rangefinder focus and parallax-corrected viewfinder. The lens is made out of 2 element plastic, the aperture control options are :f/8.8, f/12.5, f/17.5, f/25, f/35, f/42, and the shutter speeds are 1/1200 to 10 sec. Serial number is ZE403005.

Polaroid 220 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body and usually sells for around $15 now. Comes with two manuals and a light for a model 268 flashgun, but missing assorted parts to make it functional. It was a low-end model from the Polaroid Automatic land camera series, which used packfilm. However, after 1970 Polaroid had started focusing on new film and cameras such as 600 series and SX-70 series, leading to the model being discontinued in 1970. Serial number is ZB419405.

Polaroid 215 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera that originally retailed for $55.95, but now sells for around $10. It comes with two manuals. The flash is a M3 bulb and it comes with a Model 268 flash unit. The viewfinder is an imagesizer, the lens is 2 element plastic and the body is also plastic. The aperture control is f/8.8, f/42 and the shutter speed is 1/1200 to 10 sec. The serial number is ZD407582.

Polaroid 210 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera was the lower end model of the 200 line and is made of plastic. It comes with a manual. The camera originally sold for a list price of $49.95, but now usually sells for around $10. It was the first color-capable Polaroid to sell for under $50.00, and approximately 1,500,000 were produced. Serial number is ZE402564.

Polaroid 195 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body, and usually sells for around $275. It features mechanical and manual exposure systems and a 4 element lens. The 195 features a mechanical timer and a viewfinder with separate rangefinder and viewfinder windows. It also has a f3.8 114mm lens and aperture control is at f 4.5. Serial number is AD199074.

Polaroid 192 Self-Timer

Item is a couple of Polaroid self-timers that come in a cardboard box. It is compatible with all Polaroid cameras in the 100-400 series and fits over shutter button on these cameras. The range of the timer is 5 to 15 sec.

Polaroid 180 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body. It comes with a French manual. It comes with a Model 280 flash gun(has its own manual) and a Model 595 filter accessory kit. It has a a Zeiss rangefinder. The lens is a Tominin 114mm f4.5, aperture control is f4.5-f90 and shutter speed is 1/500. There is also a choice of a M for bulb or X for electronic flash, while the letter “V” is a self-timer setting. It typically sells for around $280. Serial number is A812510.

Polaroid 160 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a leather carrying strap and usually retails for around $15. It comes with a manual. It uses a M-sync Polaroid hot shoe flash and the lens is a 130 mm element glass f/8.8. The camera has a tripod socket on the bottom and the shutter has 4 speeds 1/12, 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100. Serial number is D549935.

Polaroid 135 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera, made of plastic, with a separate rangefinder focus and parallax-corrected viewfinder. The flash uses an M3 bulb and is a model 268 flash unit with filter. The lens is 3 element glass, the aperture control is f/8.8, f/42 and the shutter speed is 1/1200 to 10 seconds. It originally sold for $89.95, but now sells for around $10. Serial number is M516779.

Polaroid 1200si

The 1200si auto focus polaroid camera for instant photos. Silver body with black hand strap. Flash and tripod mount. Uses Spectra, 990, and 1200 film packs.

Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid 110B Pathfinder Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a leather carrying strap and usually retails for around $70. Film is exposed manually, in comparison to other Polaroid automatic cameras. It has a Rodenstock Ysarex 127 mm f4.7 lens and is constructed from steel. The camera also has a Prontor SVS shutter, a self timer, a hinged pinhole lens cap and a couple rangefinder viewfinder system with parallax correction. It is a folding camera and part of the Land Camera family. Polaroid produced between 27,000 and 35,000 of these cameras and viewed the Pathfinder series as its professional line. As a result, the company marketed these cameras towards more advanced photographers. Serial number is LA424366.

Polaroid Corporation

Polaroid 101 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a metal body and a place for a tripod screw. It has manual focusing, through the use of a rangefinder, and a retractable viewfinder with parallax correction. The lens is 114 mm, with 3 glass elements, f8.8-42. Exposure is automatic, with shutter priority and the ability to capture multiple exposures, and the shutter is electronically controlled at a speed of 1/1200-10.″ The flash is synchronized with a PC connection and there is an external flash (Flashgun # 268) with M-3 bulbs. it usually sells for around $25. Serial number is D107455.

Polaroid 1000 Camera Special Edition

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body and neck strap, that now typically sells for around $50. Similar to the Polaroid One Step. It is a simple point-and-shoot camera, with the option for manual exposure control, a viewfinder, a single-element 103mm f/14.6 plastic lens and the option to attach an additional flashbar. Serial number is CVA918DC.

Polaroid 1000 Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera with a plastic body and neck strap, that now typically sells for around $50. The shutter speed is 1/4 to 1/200 sec and is electronic. The aperture is fixed at F/14.6, manual lighten/darken control is possible, focusing options are 0.9 m to 30+, and the lens is plastic 103mm. At the height of production, 30,000 of these cameras were made each day. Serial number is CJV808GA.

Polaroid SX70 Model 2 (Brown) Camera

Item is a Polaroid instant camera, that usually retails for around $80. Comes with one Polaroid 5-bulb flashbar. The lens is 4-element 116mm f/8 glass, with a minimum focus of 10.4 inches, and single-lens reflex viewing and focusing. It also has a split-image rangefinder circle, electronic shutter and automatic exposure. Shutter speeds range from 1/175 to under 10 sec. The aperture control range f/8- f/22, with smaller apertures possible when used in conjunction with flash. The auto flash exposure is based on focus distance, with the maximum being 20ft. There is a built-in Flashbar socket and accessory electronic flashes were also available. Also has socket for electronic remote shutter release. Serial number is OC520942416.

Point and shoot cameras

Series contains mainly inexpensive, fully automatic 35 mm cameras marketed strictly for amateur use. These cameras are the high tech descendants of the box camera and most models have no manual control over focus, aperture, shutter speed, film winding or metering. The viewfinder on point and shoot models is, like the box camera and unlike reflex style cameras, not integrated with the lens; there is no mirror directing the view from the lens to the eye of the photographer. Most of the point and shoot cameras require batteries for operation.

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Plenax PB-20

Item is a typical folding 620 roll film camera - uses an inset mask to shoot 6 X 9 cm or 6 X 4.5 images. Shutter has no ID marking.
Tripar Lens.

Pleaser II Kodamatic

Item is a Kodak Pleaser. It is an instant 'handle' camera with a 100mm f/12.8 lens, a shutter with speeds of 2-1/300s, and electronic exposure. It used film type HS144 for a picture size of 67 x 91mm. Picture ejection is by the crank on the right hand of the camera. The concept behind this unique-looking camera was to make instant photography as inexpensive and accessible as possible so that consumers might switch from Polaroid to Kodak. It is the second of the Pleaser models and has a two-tone brown plastic body.

Canadian Kodak Co., Limited

Photographs series

This series contains photographic albums, b&w negatives and prints, colour negatives and prints, colour slides, glass plate negatives and transparencies originating from the Kodak Canada Corporate Archives and Heritage Collection. These materials were used both as forms of documentation of the history of the company at various sites including Kodak Heights, Brampton, Montreal and Vancouver, as well as functioned as a working collection to use for promotional efforts. Highlights include: documentation of the construction of the Kodak Heights site circa 1915 in a series of commissioned albums and loose prints; documentation of the various operations related to the photographic and moving image industry including paper, film, and camera production and processing; marketing campaigns for digital initiatives; and a reference slide collection used by the Kodak Canada Corporation.

Photographic materials have been organized by format and within by the order created when processed in 2005. This arrangement was loosely based on the Kodak Canada's original organization of the files in their archives index. Files of photographs organized by the Kodak Canada Archives Index associated with the collection have been kept together, with the individual file numbers and index titles referenced in the Notes field of each record. Previously assigned reference numbers are indicated in the Archivist's Comments fields.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Photographic equipment and materials series

Series contains 251 photographic materials and equipment donated by Kodak Canada Inc. including cameras, camera accessories, film and paper, photographic viewing and editing equipment, and processing equipment and materials. Objects have been arranged by the above stated categories. Most of the eqiupment and materials originated from the Kodak Canada Heritage Collection Museum, and specific reference to this original intent has been included in the notes and subject fields.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Photographic and motion picture film

Item is a collection of 107 varied motion picture and still photographic film.

BOX 1
Vericolor Slide film - 35mm, 100 feet
Ektachrome 64T - 35mm, 100 feet
Kodak Fine Grain Positive Safety film 35mm, 100 feeet
Kodak Super-XX Negative 16mm film, 100 feet
Kodak Ektachrome film 7242 16mm film, 100 feet
Kodak Ektachrome film 7241 EF 16mm film, 100 feet
Eastman Ekatchrome Video News Film High Speed 7250 Tungsten, 16mm 100 feet
Kodak Ektachrome 64 Daylight 120 film, 3 rolls
Kodachrome 40 movie film type A (exposed)
Eastman Ektachrome Super 8 color reversal film
Kodak Ektachrome Super 8 film (exposed)
Kodacolor-X color negative film, 126 cartridge with packaging
Kodak Ektachrome 160 sound color vocie film type A, 15m
Kodacolor II film for color prints, 126 cartridge
Kodacolor-X color negative film process C-22, 126 cartridge
Kodacolor-X color negative film process C-22 for blue bulbs, 126 cartridge
Kodacolor 400 color negative film, 120
2 Kodacolor II color negative film, 120
Kodacolor-X color negative film, 120
Kodak Ektachrome 400 colour reversal film, 120
3 Kodak Professional Ektachrome 50 colour reversal film, 120
Kodak Ekatchrome 400 film, 120
Kodak Plus_X Pan film in package
3 Kodak Verichrome Pan black and white film, 120
Kodacolor 400 color negative film, 35mm
TMAX P3200 black and white film, 35mm
2 Kodak TMAX 100 black and white film, 35mm
2 Kodak Proferssional T400CN C-41 black and white film, 35mm
Kodak Ektachrome 100HC 24 exposure, 35mm
Kodak High Speed Infrared black and white film, 35mm
Kodachrome 64 Professional color reversal film, 35mm
Kodak Professional Vericolor III color negative film 5026 Type S, 35mm
Kodak Professional Ektagraphic HC slide film, 35mm
Kodak Professional Ektachrome 400X color reversal film 36 exposures, 35mm
Kodak Professional Portra 800 colour negative film sample 36 exposure, 35mm
Kodak Ektachrome 400X Daylight 36 exposure, 35mm
Kodak Select Series Royal Gold 100 color negative film 24 exposure, 35mm
Kodak Professional Portra 100T color negative film 36 exposure, 35mm
2 Kodak APS 200 25 exposure, advantix
5 Kodak mailer for color slides prepaid processing for Ektachrome and Kodachrome 135-36
1 Package of 3 Kodak Advantix 400 iso film
1 Kodak Advantix demonstration film

BOX 2
Minolta 16 100, 126 cartridge
Ricoh Golden film 100, 126 cartridge
Velox developing paper, 3 1/4"x5 1/4"
Agfapan 100 Professional Minox 100 36 exposure, 8x11mm (for subminiature camera)
Minox 3x3cm slide frames (17 frames & 2 slides)
Konica SR-G disc film 15 exposures
Exposed disc film 15 exposures
Kodak Verichrome Pan film, 616 (out of package)
Kodak TRI-X Pan Professional black-and-white film, 120 (out of package)
Kodak Royal-X black-and-white film, 120 (out of package)
Kodak Verichrome Pan colour film, 116 (out of package)
Kodak Ektachrome Daylight high speed colour film, 120 (out of package)
Kodak Verichrome colour film, 120 (exposed, out of package)
Kodacolor 400 colour film, 120 (out of package)
Kodak Ektachrome 64 Professional reversal film, 120 (out of package)
Kodak Vericolor II Professional color fim, 120 (out of package)
Kodachrome II film, 828 (out of package)
Ansochrome ASA 32 colour film, instamatic (out of package)
Kodak ASA 100 colour film, instamatic (out of package)
Kodacolor VRG 200 color film, 110 (out of package)
Konica color slide film 100 24 exposure, 35mm (out of package)
Fujicolor Superia 200 color film (out of package)
Panchro film exposed, 127 (out of package)
2 Rollei film cassettes, 16 (out of package)
2 Kiev-30 film cassettes
3 Kalt 35mm bulk film canisters
2 plastic 35 mm bulk film canisters
Star-D Photo Accessories, 9 135 bulk film canisters
Steky fine grain panchromatic black-and-white film, 16mm
2 Fujichrome 64T Professional color transparency film, 120
gaf Colour Movie Film Super 8
Kodak INstant COlor FIlm PR144-10 (package only)
Eastman Ektachrome Super 8 colour reversal film
Kmart Focal Super 8 colour movie film II
Fujicolor F-64D negative film, 16mm
Fujicolor F-125 negaive film, 16mm
Eastman Kodak film canister
Fujichrome 64T Professional, 4x5
Ilford FP4 Plus 125 20 exposure, 35mm
Fujichrome 50 Professional color transparency film 36 exposure, 35mm
Fujicolor DX HR 1600 color film 36 exposure, 35mm
Fujichrome 100 Snsia II color film 36 exposure, 35mm
2 Fujifilm Adcanced Photo system Fujicolor nexia D100 25 exposure, APS
Eastman Kodak Company high speed safety film, 35mm
Easman Film and Plate developer

Photograph & Film Technology Collection

  • 2005.005
  • Collection
  • 1880 - 2008

This collection consists of photographic films, papers and chemicals used by various individuals for amateur or professional purposes. The collection also includes camera accessories, flash equipment, various lenses, exposure meters (light meters) and equpiment used for darkroom processing and printing. This is a growing collection, created to help preserve the materials used for analogue photographic developing, printing and enlarging.

Pho-Tak Reflex I

Item is a simple box camera designed to mimic the look of a twin lens camera. The topmost "lens" is in fact a brilliant viewfinder, the lens is a "colour corrected" Bohmar Precision lens (74mm) allows no focusing.

Philips Magicubes

Item consists of a 12 pack of Philips Magicubes. They introduced in 1970 as an improvement on flashcubes. As oppsed to being fired electrically by batteries, they were fired mechanically by a small bar striking a pin coated in fulminating material. This advancement made cheap flash cameras possible. They were used in cameras such as the Kodak Instamatic and the Agfa Autostar X-126, among others.

Image Arts

Perken, Son & Rayment field camera

Item is a wood and brass folding field camera, for 4 1/4" x 3 1/4" or quarter-plate exposures on glass plates. Camera bellows are extended and clipped in place with a keyhole slug and focused using a track. The removable lens board has a mounted f6 brass Perken, Son & Rayment lens with no shutter.

Pentax ME

Item is a Pentax chrome and black 35mm single lens reflex camera with strap and Asahi SMC Pentax-M 1:1.7 50mm lens. An aperture priority automatic camera, with an electronic focal plane shutter from 8s to 1/1000, synchronized at 1/100. The ME has a vertically moving metal shutter with no shutter dial. The camera contains an exposure meter (TTL open aperture center weighted type) that is activated by a slight pressure on the release button. The 0.97× viewfinder, covers 92% of the field and the fixed finder screen has a split image and a microprism ring in the center. The shutter speed chosen by the camera was displayed in the finder, the aperture was not.

The ME has interchangeable lenses with a K mount. This camera was donated with 2 additional lenses, a SMC Pentax-M 1:3.5 28mm Asahi and a 75-205mm 1:3.8 Vivitar zoom lens.

The ME was replaced in 1979 by the Pentax ME Super and the Pentax MV.

Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.

Pentax Espio 90MC

Item is a 35 mm automatic camera with zoom and digital display. has red eye feature, timer, flash and remote function has a switch to toggle from panoramic to regular film size.

Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.

Pentax Espio 140

Item is a Pentax Espio 140. This is a 35mm compact camera with autofocus and zoom lens. Has a SMC Pentax Zoom Lens 38mm-140mm. Self-timer, CR-123 battery, Multi AF autofucus. Integrated flash. Panoramic mode.

Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.

Pentax Espio 115M

Item is a Pentax Espio 115M with remote control and operating manual. It is a 35mm compact zoom camera with autofocus. Grey in colour. Fully automatic lens-shutter with auto flash. Pentax electronic power zoom 35-115mm f/3.9-10.5 lens. Standard/panorama viewfinder, real image with lines for parallax correction, diopter adjustment. Focus lock and flash readiness indicators. Built-in flash with red-eye reduction. Self-timer. Auto-loading, winding and rewinding.

Asahi Optical Co., Ltd.

Paxina I

Item is a basic medium format camera for 6 x 6 cm (2.36" x 2.36") exposures on 120 film. Produced by Braun, this was an inexpensive Bakelite camera with a f7.7 75mm lens which allowed for focusing from 1 meter to infinity. The shutter allowed for 3 speeds (1/100, 1/30 and B). The basic design is similar to the box camera, with a more compact and rounded shape.

Pathéscope Baby (9.5mm projector)

Item is a cast metal, 9.5 mm projector for motion picture film. Designed for home use. It has a manual crank to advance the film, and a plug for a projection bulb (105-120 volt). This item is intended for Pathé's proprietary 9.5 mm Pathé Baby film cartridges (the sprocket is centered in the middle of the film between each frame).

Pathescope

Pathéscope 200 B (9.5mm projector)

Item is a cast metal, 9.5 mm projector for motion picture film. Designed for home use, public performances and clubs, or instructional use in classrooms.
It has a 105-130 volt motor. The film gate can be opened to easily thread the film throughout the driving mechanisms. It uses 9.5 Pathé Baby Film (motor drive has centre sprocket)

This projector uses 300 ft. reels (instead of the smaller 9.5 mm cartridges).

Pathescope

Paterson miro focuser

Item is a device to focus an image on the easel of an photographic enlarger before exposing the paper. It consists of a magnifier and an optical tube to look down and to see a portion of the projected image. One places the unit on the enlarging easel and adjusts the enlarger focus knob, until fine detail such as grain comes into focus. This ensures a properly focused image. The locking screw for securing the ocular in place is missing.

Patent [#22351] for improvements in roll holders, for exposing flexible sensitive photographic films

Item is the original patent (#22351) granted on September 2, 1885 by the Commissioner of Patents, Dominion of Canada, to George Eastman and William Hall Walker of Rochester, NY, for "improvements in roll holders, for exposing flexible sensitive photographic films." Item includes textual specifications and diagrams of the proposed improvements. Prior to patenting the innovation in Canada, Eastman and Walker were granted a similar patent (#317049) by the United States patent office on May 5, 1885.

Kodak Canada Inc.

Panoramic cameras

Series contains cameras designed to take wide-angle photographs (images that are least twice as wide as they are tall). Cameras of this nature began to be produced soon after photography was invented, as photographers have always wanted to capture large group portraits, landscape views and skylines. Panoramic photographs are achieved by stitching several exposures together to create one image or with purpose built cameras of several designed, including banquet (similar to standard cameras with wider aspect ratios, designed to take photographs of large groups indoors), short rotation (uses a curved film plane, swinging lens and split shutter that the lens rotates around), and full or long rotation (capable of producing 360 degree views by rotating the camera and film past the shutter).

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Panorama Wide Pic

Item is a 35 mm, plastic point and shoot camera that takes wide panoramic style photographs on 35mm film. The exposures are masked off (cutting off the top and bottom of the 35mm frame) to produce panoramic images.

Panoram Kodak No.4

Item is a rollfilm panoramic cameras in which the lens pivots and projects the image to the curved focal plane. The camera uses No. 103 rollfilm to take 3.50 x 12 inch exposures. It has a rapid rectilinear lens and a 142 degree angle. This model is the original model for the Panoram Kodak series and has no door to cover the swinging lens.

Packard-Ideal shutter

Item is a mechanical shutter with pneumatic operation, includes bulb and tubing. The Packard-Ideal shutter is used behind the lens in large-format view cameras.

Packard Shutter Company

Optima 500

Item is a Agfa Optima 500 35mm camera. The camera introduced a new body for the Optima, similar to the Agfa Silette Record of 1963, containing a selenium meter, rapid-wind level on bottom, a shutter release on lens barrel, and a red-green signal in bright-frame finder. This item features a Color-Apotar f2.8/45 mm lens, an automatic programmed Compur shutter f2.8/30 to f22/500, and a square shutter release.

One-time use cameras

Series contains cameras designed to be disposable. Usually simple, point and shoot cameras made of plastic cases with cardboard housings, these cameras were sold pre-loaded with film and returned to the photofinisher in tact for development. The plastic bodies were often returned to the manufacturer and re-used, with film and housing. Cameras such as this were marketed for travel, weddings, underwater or other situations where a more expensive camera may get damaged. They were available in different film speeds and some models included a flash.

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Olympus-Pen EE-2

Item is a 35mm camera with fully automatic regulation of shutter and aperture. Fixed focus F3.5/28mm lens and compact size makes this a nice pocket camera. Has gray textured out body casing.

Olympus Trip 35

Item is a black plastic and metal point and shoot 35 mm camera with in-lens, solar powered selenium light meter. Camera has a Prontor-Compur synch connector and a hot shoe. For use with 25-400 asa film.

Olympus Optical Company Limited

Olympus Tough model no. TG-860

Item consists of a compact, waterproof digital camera with a black metal body. Lens is an Olympus lens with with 5 x optical and 4 x digital zoom, a shutter speed of 4 second to 1/2000 of a second, an aperture range of F3.5-F5.7, and an effective focal range of 21-105 mm. The lens is placed at the top of the front of the camera rather in the center. The CCD optical sensor has a resolution of 16 mega pixels and the ISO range is 125 to 800. The camera is waterproof up to 50 feet and includes a built-in TTL flash. The camera features "Advanced Face Detection" technology and face-priority auto focus function. The original selling price was about $280.

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