Máquina gentilmente oferecida por José Paulo Costa.
History and technical features
Felita is a medium format film viewfinder like box camera made by Vredeborch GmbH, Nordenham, Germany and introduced in 1955.
It is similar as Vredeborch Felica but with metal body. It uses roll 120 film for 6x6cm frames. It has a 60mm f/8 meniscus lens, zone focus and a central, Guillotine type shutter with two speeds, 1/25 and 1/50 +B. It was offered black and grey coverings. There is a rare version with red covering also.
The Vredeborch Felica is a simple camera for 6x6 exposures on 120 film, made by the German firm Vredeborch. It is a modest step upwards from the most basic box camera, with scale focusing by twisting the front ring of the lens; two shutter speeds; aperture settings "sunny" or "cloudy"; and a yellow filter to enhance clouds in black & white photos. The series began with the Felita of 1955 and continued with the Felica Duo and Stafetta Duo, variations that offered a second 6x4.5cm image-format option.
Type: viewfinder camera
Manufacturer: Vredeborch
Year of launch: 1954 or 1955
Film: type 120 film rolls
Lens: 60mm
Shutter: guillotine-type, flash synchronized, with speeds 1/25 sec., 1/50 sec. and B
Aperture: f8 or f16
Viewfinder: optical, Albada type
Format: 6x6 cm negative
Film: 120 roll, picture size 6x6cm
Lens: meniscus lens 60mm f/8, filter slip-on
Built-in yellow filter, sets with a lever on the lens-shutter barrel
Aperture: two apertures, sunny (f/16) and cloudy (f/8)
Setting: lever and symbols on the lens-shutter barrel
Focus range: 1.5-8m +inf
Focusing: manual front element focusing with three settings: 1.5-3m, 3-8m and 8m-inf
Shutter: central, Guillotine type with two speeds, 1/25 and 1/50 +B; setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Cocking and Shutter release: by the same knob, on the top plate
Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder
Flash PC socket: on the lens-shutter barrel
Cold-shoe
Self-timer: none
Back cover: removable with bottom and sides of the front plate, opens by a latch on the bottom plate, then slide the front plate; w/ red window
The back cover is bent to compensate for the distortion of the lens
Tripod socket: 3/8"
Hand grip
Body: plastic; Weight: 257g
Anasuma and Co était un groupe japonais, tout à fait sérieux, fabricant pendant plus de 80 ans, des accessoires d'optiques. Au milieu des années 80, cette firme sortit une série de mini 110 gadgets dénommés Torel.
Jiffy Six 16 (1933-37)
Jiffy Six 20 (1933-37)
Jiffy Six 16 Series II (1937-48)
Jiffy Six 20 Series II (1937-48)
Both of the Jiffy first series and the Series II models made with two similar versions except the film size, one for 616 film named Six 16 and one for 620 film named Six 20.
First series were made with Art Déco painted front plate, but the Series II front plate was covered with black leatherette.
Film:
Six 16: 616 roll, picture size: 6.5x11cm
Six 20: 620 roll, picture size: 6x9cm
Engraving on the back cover opening catch: Six 16 or Six 20, Jiffy Kodak, Series II, Made in USA by Eastman Kodak Co. Rochester, N.Y.
Aperture: two, f/8, f/11 (some cameras have f/16 also), sets by a pull-out tab on the left of the front plate
Focus range: 5-10 feet +inf
Focusing: manual front focusing, there are two extreme stops, 5 to 10 feet and Beyond 10 feet
Shutter: simple spring rotary shutter, one speed, I instant 1/50 (1/25?) and T time, setting lever on the top of the front plate
Cocking lever and Shutter release: by the same lever, for instant press once, aperture hole opens and closes
Viewfinder: two reflecting bright finders
Bellows: single extension, strut folding, self opening
Front plate and bellows opening: by a silver knob on the right side of the camera; closing: press outwards the struts
Back cover: Hinged, opens by a latch on top of the camera, with a red window w/ a lid
There is a sticker inside of the back cover: Use Kodak 616 or 620 film
Tripod socket: none
Hand grip lugs
Camera leg: swivelling for vertical and horizontal standing, beneath the front plate
The Jiffy Kodak Six-16 & Six-20 Series II Cameras were manufactured by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1937 to 1948. Advertised as the simplest folding camera ever devised. Named Jiffy for the speed and ease at which the camera would get ready to shoot. Simply by touching a button the front pops out. Touch a second and the picture is taken. Features included a twindar lens, built in shutter with time and instantaneous actions, two crowned brilliant finders, foot support to stand camera for time exposures. Finished in black Moroccan grain covering, black and nickel etched metal front. The six-16 took 8 images, 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 inch size on 616 film and originally sold for $9.00. The six-20 took 8 images 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch size on 620 film and originally cost $8.00. Measures 7"L x 1.25"w x 3.25"h when closed.
The Adox 66 was a bakelite box camera. The eye of its reflecting type viewfinder was placed directly over the camera lens, giving the camera a bit of the look of a pseudo TLR. It was made by Hermann Wolf GmbH, Wuppertal, Germany, for the Adox company. Wolf made a similar model named Gevabox for Gevaert in Belgium. Wolf's own name for that camera was Luxa 66.
The ADOX 66 camera was manufactured by the ADOX company in circa 1950. Constructed of Bakelite plastic with the view finder located on the top to give the appearance of a TLR. It was made by Hermann Wolf GmbH, Wuppertal, Germany, who originally called it Luxa 66.
It had a focusable 1:8 meniscus lens, choice between instant and time mode, and choice between the two apertures f8 and f11. It had a thread in the bottom to put it onto a tripod, and a thread in the top to connect a remote shutter release.
The camera was fitted with a fixed focus meniscus f8 lens and an instantaneous and time shutter. It featured a two aperature settings f8 and f11, a tripod socket and a cable release socket.
The Bilora Bella 66 camera was manufactured by the Kurbi & Niggeloh Company of Radevormwald/RHLD, Germany in circa 1956. It was a moderately priced and well-built camera made of cast alloy with material coverings and a large direct view finder. This camera was capable of capturing twelve 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inch ( 6 x 6 cm ) exposures on No. 120 roll film. It was fitted with a Meniscus f11 lens, and a two speed shutter for 1/50 and 1/100 of a second speeds, in addition to bulb synchronized for flash. This camera also featured a built-in yellow filter. Priced at £4 6s 3d in 1957.
Bilora still exists, although they've abandoned the production of cameras for less labor-intensive and more profitable goods like tripods and opera glasses. Based in Radevormwald, northeast of Cologne, Germany, they have a German-language website at www.bilora.de. This site has a short history section with information about the factory, surmised below.
The Metallwarenfabrik (metalware factory) Kürbi & Niggeloh was founded on February 1, 1909 by Wilhelm Kürbi and Carl Niggeloh in Barmen-Rittershausen, near Wuppertal. The first products developed were tripods, but soon other goods were marketed, like songbook stands, hat racks and postcard holders. Apparently business went well enough to commission a 1200 square meter factory two years later, which was erected in Radevormwald. Camera production started in 1935, beginning with the Bilora Box, of which over a million were produced in 21 years. The name "Bilora" was a contraction of Kürbi & Niggeloh, Radevormwald, and was coined by photographic dealer Otto Tönnes during recovery in Berlin from injuries sustained in World War I.
The first plastic injection machine was purchased on June 26, 1961 in recognition of the growing importance of plastics, leading to the formation of a plastics division in 1965. In 1978, production facilities were increased to 12.000 square meters, and again expanded to 16.000 square meters in 1991. Nowadays the form is known as Kürbi & Niggeloh Bilora GmbH, has over 100 employees, and is located at the Kaiserstrasse 163–165 in Radevormwald. Their prime consumer products are tripods.
Camera production was undertaken under the own Bilora trademark and under auspices of various reputed other firms, such as Voigtländer, for which Bilora produced the Voigtländer Box from 1935 to 1939, and Zeiss Ikon, for which Bilora produced the Ikomatic A and F from 1964 to 1968. Other brand cameras produced in Radevormwald included the Yashica Minipak, identical to the own Bilomatic X, and cameras for the Belgian firm Gevaert, such as the Gevabox II.
The Bella was one of many types of cheap roll film cameras Bilora manufactured after the war. The best Internet resource on Bilora's cameras has to be the Bilora section of www.kameraschaetze.de. It has a large lineup of Bella cameras in all shapes and sizes and, informs us that my blue Bella is type 3c, one of over twenty types of Bella's manufactured.
Enough with the introduction, let's go to the camera. The first impression you get when you take it in your hands is that it feels like a cross between a tin car and a kitchen tool. It's a sturdy camera, made of two heavy iron parts that fit together, but the top plate appears thin and tin-like. The iron parts are a bit bolshy and crude-looking, but well finished with thick turquoise paint, and sufficient for the job anyway. When you look at the back, you can't miss the huge key with the inscription "film 127 – made in Germany". Turn the key to the left, and the back comes loose. It's not fixed to the body and bowl-shaped, and interlocks with the body along deep girders. It has a bent pressure plate, and a non-maskable red window in the dead center. The tripod brush, standard 1/4", is in the middle on the bottom, but fairly far from the camera's center of gravity. Not that the camera is so extremely heavy by the way, but it does have some appreciable mass, which I think is useful when shooting medium format at a highest speed of 1/100s. The film plane is curved because it's easier to design a one or two element lens that projects the image in a semicircular plane, than it is to design one that projects on a straight plane. The lens is an unnamed Achromat f/8 of unknown focal length, that can be stopped down to f/11 by flipping a lever that places a plate with a circular hole in the optical axis of the lens. Nice touch: the plate with the hole in it is the same turquoise as the body. Wonder what that does for internal reflections though. The lens focuses between 1m and infinity. The only shutter speeds are 1/50s and 1/100s, with an option for B. The shutter is really simple, and is operated by pressing the release on the front side of the camera. The release is hooked to a spring that gives it a jaunty recoil, but not much of a pressure point. The shutter is self-cocking, which is good, but it's easy to make double exposures, which is bad. The tricky thing with this camera is that you never really know if you've already exposed the current frame or not, if you don't have the discipline to transport directly after shooting. An exposure counter and linked film transport would have helped, but apart from the red window and the wind knob that protrudes from the top plate, you're on your own. You don't even have a film memo widget. Flash is made easy with the hot shoe and the X synchro contact, advertised by the "synchro-flash" print on the top front of the lens barrel. The film format is 6×4.5cm on 127 film. You load on the right and take up on the left. The viewfinder is a small single-element peephole on the optical axis, but on my camera it's become quite hazy. It has no framelines, but strangely appears to be much wider than the actual image.
I think that about sums this camera up. It's stylish, small and cheap, but strictly for good-natured amateurs. I like it because of its charm and unpretentiousness, but maybe my folly will rub off some day.
Lugar + Fecha de FabricaciónRadevormwald/Alemania, 1959-1961
Número de serie---
ObjetivoRodenstock Achromat 1:8
ObturadorBella -/100
Tipo y dimensiones negativoRollo 120/6x6cm - 12 fotos
Referencia KadlubeckBIL140A
Referencia Kerkmann616
The Ferrania 3M Euramatic FC is a viewfinder camera for type No. 126 Kodapak film cartridges. It was made in 1964, when Ferrania was acquired by 3M. It has three distance settings for its Achromatic Ferrania 1:8/43mm lens in an Atomar shutter. Two exposure settings are selectable, one for sunny weather, one for cloudy weather. It can fire flashcubes.
The Ferrania 3M Euramatic was a similar camera, but with connector and collapsible reflector for type AG1 flashbulbs.
The Diana Mini Camera is a plastic box camera that utilizes 35mm film, and is a part of a long line of lomographic cameras known for taking photos vibrant in color with deep saturation and vignettes shot through a plastic lens. It is capable of taking 72 exposures per roll of film in "half-frame" mode and 36 exposures in "square" mode. It can also take multiple exposures. Modeled after the original Diana camera, the Diana Mini is one of many reproductions and re-imaginings of the Diana camera by the Austria-based company, Lomographische AG FN: FN 134784. The Diana Mini is one of several new production versions of the Diana camera currently available as the Diana+ series, produced by Lomography.
The Diana Mini 35mm Camera from Lomography is the ultra-compact, version of the Diana F+ camera. This plastic camera with a wide angle lens allows users to get in close or choose between any of four focal distances. It has exposure settings: 'Sunny', 'Cloudy', or 'B'. The Mini has two formats, 36 square pictures or 72 half-frame pictures on one roll of 35mm film. Plus, users can swap between formats on the same roll with the flick of a button. The Diana Mini, to enhance creative possibilities, is ready and able to create multiple exposures. With the Diana Mini long exposures are easy thanks to the 'B' setting, tripod mount and cable release attachment - a Diana first.
The Diana Mini came about after the reincarnation of the original Diana camera, the Diana F+ Camera, released in 2007. The Diana Mini brought with it the ability of the photographer to choose between the half-frame format that allows the user to shoot twice the amount of exposures for any 35mm film roll, or the less common square format that allows for 24x24mm exposures to be shot on 35mm film.
Uses all kinds of 35mm film – it can take up to 72 shots in half-frame mode per 1 roll of 36 exposure film
Shoots two film formats: square and rectangular half-frames
Multiple exposure available
B mode for long exposures
Cable release attachment and Tripod mount
Compatible with the Diana F+ Flash
The Fujifilm Clear Shot Plus was a lightweight compact camera taking 35mm film, introduced by Fuji in the mid-1990s. It was part of the low-priced Clear Shot series of cameras with wide-angled lenses. In some countries, it appears to have been called the Smart Shot Deluxe.
Full specifications from manual:
Film * 35mm roll negative film, ISO 100, 200 and 400
Picture size * 24 x 36mm
Lens * Fujinon 1:8 (1 = 33mm.)
Viewfinder * Reverse Galilean
Shooting range * 1.3 m - infinity (fixed focus)
Aperture * F/8 (Fixed)
Shutter * 1/100th of a second (fixed)
Film loading * Automatic film loading (drop-in loading), advances to first frame automatically when shutter release is pressed
Film advance * Automatic film advance with motor
Film rewind * Motorized rewinding triggered with the film rewind switch
Exposure counter * Additive, also serves as film advance indicator, turned directly by film winding and rewinding
Flash * Built-in
* ISO 100 - 1.3 m - 3 m. (4.3 ft. - 10 ft.)
* ISO 200 - 1.3 m - 4 m. (4.3 ft. - 13 ft.)
* ISO 400 - 1.3 m - 5 m. (4.3 ft. - 16 ft.)
Batteries * 2 alkaline manganese penlight batteries. Batteries provide power for taking about 400 all-flash pictures (as tested in Fuji's battery testing procedure) Ni-Cd batteries cannot be used.
Other * Slide cover equipped with safety lock to prevent shutter release when not fully open. Film confirmation window.
Dimensions * 135 x 73 x 44 mm. 175 g without batteries.
Fex/Indo (for France EXport) and (INDustrie Optique) is a French company that produced inexpensive camera models from the 1940s to the 1981. It was one of the few civil camera companies founded in times of WWII. When France was "under German occupation, Fritz Kaftanski formed an association with Lucien Bouchetal de la Roche in order to produce cameras under the mark FEX (for France EXport). Located in Lyon, this company became FEX-INDO and then INDO (INDustrie Optique). It stopped all activities in 1981"[1]. The wartime product was a wooden camera of poor quality but with Angenieux lens. Later Kaftanski himself developed successful camera models like the bakelite camera Ultra-Fex. The main brand names were Fex, Weber/Fex and in the late years Indo.
The Halina Roy is a simple box camera for 127 film manufactured by Haking in Hong Kong. The lens is fixed focus and what is apparently a selenium meter cell beside the viewfinder is simply a dummy.
Model:Roy (Halina Roy)
Manufacturer / brand:Haking, Hongkong
Type:Flash Cube Camera
First year of production:1960
Country of origin:China
Type of film:127 roll film
Negative size:4x4 cm
Material:Plastic / metal
Colour:Black / silver
Lens:Halimar Roy 8/47 mm
Shutter:Rotation 1/30 sec.
Eura is a medium format film box camera made by Ferrania S.p.A., Liguria, Italy and introduced in c.1959. Eura resembles some Agfa Clack of the same time. Its most notable feature is sleek Italian styling, which appears modern even today.
Nel 1959, oltre alla Ibis 44, vennero presentate altre due fotocamere: la Eura e la Lince.
La Eura, fabbricata a Milano, era un apparecchio in plastica per il formato 6x6 cm su pellicola 120 dal costo ultra-economico; veniva presentata come “un passo avanti decisivo perchè TUTTI possano fotografare con facilità, co fiducia, con soddisfazione, con spesa minima”.
In effetti l'uso era semplicissimo, bastava regolare la distanza del soggetto, scegliere uno dei due diaframmi possibili e scattare con l'unico tempo, si poteva usare anche il flash.
I risultati che si ottenevano, a detta dei redattori delle riviste fotografiche dell'epoca, erano “sorprendenti”; negli anni successivi la Ferrania utilizzò grandi risorse nella propaganda per la diffusione di questa fotocamera non solo in Italia ma in tutta Europa e sicuramente la Eura fu il più grande successo commerciale della Ferrania nel settore degli apparecchi fotografici.
Film 120 roll, picture size 6x6cm
Lens: Meniscus lens f/8, filter slip-on
Aperture: f/8 and f/12, setting: lever and scale on the lens-shutter barrel
Focus range: 2-8m +inf
Focusing: manual front cell focusing
Shutter: Everset shutter, one speed 1/30
Cocking and Shutter release: by the same lever, on the lens-shutter barrel
Winding: knob on the bottom plate
Viewfinder: reverse telescopic finder
Flash PC socket: on the lens-shutter barrel
Cold-shoe
Self-timer: none
Back cover: removable, opens by a latch on the right side of the camera
Engraving on the back cover: Made in Italy
Tripod socket: ¼"
Strap lugs
Body: plastic and aluminium; Weight: 244g
Serial no.none
he Viceroy was a Pseudo TLR-format roll film box camera produced by Haking's in Hong Kong from around 1960. The lens plate is labelled "HAKING'S SUPER REFLEX" below the taking lens. Picture format is twelve 6x6cm images on 120 film. Lens: Haking's Double Meniscus f.8, with f.8, f.11 and f.16 stops. B & I shutter settings, with flash synch and an accessory shoe on the side.
The shutter and aperture controls are operated by knobs either side of the space between the lenses, imitating more expensive TLRs.
A similar camera, with the same body and lens but simpler controls and without the accessory shoe, was the Halina Prefect, of 1960.
Two of the best-known and most commonly-seen camera names are Halina and Hanimex.
Haking - maker of Halina cameras (and many more) was founded in 1956 by Dr Haking Wong in Hong Kong. As well as selling cameras under the Halina name, Haking make cameras for other camera companies. Halina cameras tend to be engineered down to a low price and this low price means they sold, when available new, in large numbers. It is no surprise, therefore, to see that they are common on the second-hand market now.
The fact they are easy to find makes them attractive cameras for the collector who wishes to build a varied collection at low cost.
The Halina Viceroy takes 12 or 24 exposures on 120 roll film. It is a basic twin-lens camera with a non-focussing f/8 lens, simple shutter (I and T) and brilliant finder. In 1960 it cost £3 19s. 6d.
It’s small(ish) and (I dare say) good looking; it has a small plate on the top (not mine but the other ones do) that says “Halina Viceroy” and it says “Hakings super reflex” around the lens (I must admit I love this), on the back it has a sliding door-like thing that covers the little red counter window and says “made in Hong Kong”, it was produced sometime ‘round the 60’s (in Hong Kong) by Haking (of Hong Kong).
As some rubbish/toyish cameras it has simple settings (something like the Diana) three apertures(f.8, 11& 16), one fixed speed and bulb, I like this because you get some choice but not too much. It has a double meniscus, non focusing, f/8 lens that produces some slight vignetting. It takes 12 square pictures on 120 film or around 24 or 17 pseudo-panoramic photos with sprocket holes if you stick a roll of 35mm film in it (but that’s a tricky thing to do with this camera [in my opinion]).
Holga 120GCFN is a Glass Lens Medium Format Film Camera with built-in color flash. It produces the well known Holga style classic lo-fi photos with the shadowy vignettes, unpredictable light leaks and soft focus in your square shots. It can accommodate all 120 medium format films. The Holga 120GCFN package is provided with two different film size of frame masks, so that it can take both traditional and square format pictures. The Holga 120GCFN includes a built in flash with a spinning color wheel for your choice of red, yellow, blue or standard white flash. Two batteries are required for operating the built-in flash, but it can still take photo without batteries. Although the Holga 120GCFN is basically a fixed focus camera, it still offers four choices of object distances. Two choice of aperture are available: f/11 & f/8. The multiple exposure can be achieve by not advancing the film after a frame has been exposed. Fifteen camera body colors are available: Black, Blue, Camouflage, Gold, Pink, Purple, Red, Red&White, Silver, YRB, White, Yellow, Tri-Color A/B/C.
he Holga is a medium format camera that recently became ultra-popular, partly as a response to the digital consensus with modern photography, and in part as a low-cost, unpredictable means of using film. The Holga is quite cheaply made and consequently is relatively low in cost, making it also a more interesting entry-level type of camera. Everything in the camera is plastic, including the lens, and this leads to blown-out, wild-looking photos with plenty of light leaks.
Especificações
TYPE:120 Medium Format Film Camera
LENS:60mm Glass Lens
SHUTTER:Leaf shutter, speed 1/100s
FOCUS:Adjustable, 0.9m to infinity
APERTURE:f/8, f/11
VIEWFINDER:Eye Level Direct
FLASH:Built-in Flash with 4 Colors Filter
DIMENSIONS:140 x 102 x 76 mm
WEIGHT:200g
COLOR:Black, Blue, Camouflage, Gold, Pink, Purple, Red, Red-White, Silver, A, B, C, White, Yellow, YRB
The Holga is a medium format camera that recently became ultra-popular, partly as a response to the digital consensus with modern photography, and in part as a low-cost, unpredictable means of using film. The Holga is quite cheaply made and consequently is relatively low in cost, making it also a more interesting entry-level type of camera. Everything in the camera is plastic, including the lens, and this leads to blown-out, wild-looking photos with plenty of light leaks.
