Ensign Selfix
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The Selfix was the name given to a long-running range of folding cameras made by Houghton-Butcher and its successors — part of an extensive series of Ensign cameras.
Description
The Selfix range had cameras designed for 6x4.5, 6×6 or 6×9cm exposures. At the time, photographers often distinguish between two series of Selfix models: the pre-1940 and the (then called) "modern" series.
Each of these series contains three main models for the different picture sizes, and is fitted, in the case of the pre-1940 series, with a whole range of different lenses and shutters. The basic design and manipulation is similar throughout, though the mechanical details of the modern series are, of course, much more up-to-date[1].
Some of the Selfixes were dual-format cameras, allowing a frame size reduction by means of an accessory mask. These masks were hinged, a clever design that prevents it being lost unlike many other camera makers from that time, and cameras with this capability had the extra red window accommodating the different sizes.
Cameras
- Ensign Selfix 20 / Ensign Selfix 20 AutoRange
- Ensign Selfix 2-20 / Ensign Selfix 2-20 AutoRange
- Ensign Selfix 3-20
- Ensign Selfix 4-20
- Ensign Selfix 8-20 / Ensign Selfix 8-20 Special / Ensign Selfix 8-20 AutoRange
- Ensign Selfix 12-20 / Ensign Selfix 12-20 Special / Ensign Selfix 12-20 AutoRange
- Ensign Selfix 16-20 / Ensign Selfix 16-20 AutoRange
- Ross Ensign Selfix Snapper
Ensign Selfix 20 (f/7.7 model) |
Ensign Selfix 320 | |
Ensign Selfix 420 |
Ensign Selfix 820 |
Ensign Selfix 12-20 |
Ensign Selfix 16-20 |
Ensign Selfix Snapper |
Notes
- ↑ Quoted from the Nov, 1955 "Selfix Camera Guide" from Focal Point, fourth edition, pp.3.
Links
In English:
- List of Ensign instruction manuals at Orphancameras.com
In French: