Ilford Sportina Rapid (1965-1966)

Ilford Sportina Rapid (1965-1966)

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The Sportina Rapid camera range was a (near) instant loading camera, introduced by Ilford on a trial basis in SW England and S Wales during Spring 1965. The 1965 launch of the Ilford Rapid cameras was 'encouraging' (Camera magazine editorial, March 1966) to the extent that they were made available nationwide during 1966. The full range of Sportina cameras (see below) may not have arrived until 1966.

In Practical Photography magazine for April 1966, the Sportina Rapid was advertised to be on sale throughout the UK and was then priced at £8.19s.6d (£8.98p), s small reduction on the 1965 'trial release' price.

As the 'Rapid' name implies, this camera utilised the Rapid film system, as pioneered by Agfa in 1936 for their Karat camera, giving 12 exposures 24x36mm per cassette. The Karat system was itself developed from the 'Memo' cassette introduced by Ansco, Agfa's associate company in the USA, during the mid-1920s. The 35mm cassette, as eventually became the industry standard, was brought out by Kodak in 1934 to compliment the release of their first Retina camera.

Agfa relaunched their old Karat cassette in the mid-1960s to counter the Kodak 126 Instamatic cartridge. The 'new' Agfa system was called the 'Rapid' system. An article by Eric Dugdale in Photographica World No.101 vol 3 for 2002 describes the Rapid cassette system in some detail, including the 'T' projection on the cassette which 'told' the camera what speed film had been loaded (25-400ASA); the length of the leg of the 'T' was longer with faster film.

Fonte: photomerorabilia.co.uk

The Ilford Sportina Rapid was a range of small viewfinder cameras made in Germany by Dacora for Ilford, introduced to the UK in 1965. They used Rapid film, which ran between two cassettes, giving near instant-loading, with no rewinding. Ilford introduced several rapid films alongside this range.
There were at least four models, I, II, III & IV, with increasing levels of metering and automation. These we rebranded Dacoras, D 101, D 202, D 303 and D 404. The Dacoras were also rebranded by Hanimex and the D202 by Ferrania as the Lince Rapid.

Fote: camera-wiki.org


Especificações

The following description refers to the Sportina Rapid at the time of its announcement in Amateur Photographer for 28th April 1965. Apertures on the Sportina were set automatically according to the film speed; typical figures being f12.5 for b&w and f6.3 for 64ASA colour. The lens was a 46mm 3-element Dignar, focussing 1m to infinity. The focussed distance setting can be seen in the cut out window around the front of the lens mount (at 8 o'clock in the image above). Shutter settings were made according to weather symbols; "sunny" gave 1/125, "overcast" gave 1/60 and "flash" gave 1/30th sec. The flash shoe had a 'hot' centre contact. The Sportina Rapid flashgun can be seen here.

Construction of the Sportina was a combination of plastic and satin chromed metal parts, and the size was 115 x 75 x 55mm. The price was £9.17s.9d (£9.89p) with a case 19s 10d extra (99p).

The Rapid cassette alongside has an 'E' tag, meaning that the vertical 'leg' of the 'T' section is 2mm (measured from the underside of the bar) and designates the film as 64ASA.

The 'A' tag was just a plain bar and signified a 25ASA film. The 6mm long leg of an 'N' tag signified a 400ASA film.

The leg length had a tolerance of +/- 0.05mm.

A 'Rapid' camera used two cassettes. The unexposed film went into the right hand chamber, beneath the wind-on lever, and an empty cassette was placed in the left hand chamber. The film was wound from right to left, opposite to the conventional 35mm film movement. The use of two cassettes gave the security that inadvertent opening of the camera back did not destroy more than perhaps 1 or 2 exposures. This was a feature of the 126 Instamatic system, so would have been necessary in any rival system.

Ilford introduced 3 films in Rapid cartridges to 'feed' this and other Rapid film cameras. Ilford's (Rapid cassette) b&w film (presumed to be FP3) was priced at 4s.6d (22.5p), 64ASA Colorprint was 17s.6d incl. processing and contact prints (87.5p), a new service introduced by Ilford for their colour print processing at the time, and 64ASA Super Colorslide was 17s.6d, including processing and slides returned in plastic mounts and 'Quick-look' plastic viewing sheets with pockets for 12 slides per sheet (another innovation by Ilford in Spring of 1965).

Fonte: photomerorabilia.co.uk

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A minha tem o n.º de série 356302.


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