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| − | |image_text= Advertisement for the Adams Minex<br />from ''Photograms of the Year 1932'' | + | |image_text= Advertisement for the Adams Minex<br />from ''Photograms of the Year 1932''<br/>([[Tropical]] model illustrated) |
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| − | '''A. Adams & Co.''' was a camera maker based in Charing Cross Road, London. It made a wide range of cameras, from the handsome clam-shell folder ''Natti'' to the big wooden ''Studio Minex''. For the average amateur it made the ''[[Vesta]]'' and the ''Verto'' folders, and the ''Vaido'' plate cameras. Under the ''Minex'' name it offered a series of [[SLR]] cameras. The company made also customized cameras. Maybe the ''Tandem'' double camera was one of them. | + | '''A. Adams & Co.''' was a camera maker based in Charing Cross Road, London. It made a wide range of cameras, from the handsome clam-shell folder ''Natti'' to the big wooden ''Studio Minex''. For the average amateur it made the ''[[Vesta]]'' and the ''Verto'' folders, and the ''Vaido'' plate cameras. Under the ''Minex'' name it offered a series of [[SLR]] cameras. The company made also customized cameras. <!--Commented out; no use without a link or ref; what is the Tandem camera? Maybe the ''Tandem'' double camera was one of them.--> |
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==Cameras== | ==Cameras== | ||
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| + | |image_text= Advertisement for the Studio Minex; a portrait camera<br/>with a reflex screen at the side. BJ Almanac, 1932.<br/> | ||
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* Aidex | * Aidex | ||
* Challenger | * Challenger | ||
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* Ideal | * Ideal | ||
* Idento | * Idento | ||
| − | * Minex | + | * Minex<ref>[http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/results.asp?image=10461259 ''Tropical'' Minex] at the [http://www.scienceandsociety.co.uk Science&Society] picture library.</ref><ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Minex-De-Luxe-Model/AI-15-18805 2½x3½-inch (6.5x9cm) Minex] 'de luxe' in black-leather finish, with 136mm f/3.5 [[Ross Xpres]], sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-15/ fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], in May 2009.</ref><ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Co.-Minex-Tropical-De-Luxe-Model/AI-28-33091 5x7-inch Tropical Minex] with 26cm f/5.6 Krauss-Zeiss Tessar, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-28/ 28th Westlicht Auction], in November 2015.</ref> |
* Folding Minex | * Folding Minex | ||
* Tropical Folding Minex | * Tropical Folding Minex | ||
* Natti | * Natti | ||
* Royal | * Royal | ||
| + | * Studio Minex<ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Studio-Minex/AI-19-12829 Studio Minex] camera with (sideways) reflex focusing, with 20-inch f/5.6 Aldis Triplet Anastimat, on mahogany studio stand, sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-19/ nineteenth Westlicht Auction], in May 2011.</ref> | ||
* Vaido | * Vaido | ||
| − | * Verto | + | * Verto<ref>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Adams-Co.-Verto/AI-17-11558 Verto] with Ross f/5.6 (f/11) [[Combinable lens]]. The camera has a rotating front; the lens and shutter rotate on the standard for horizontal use; sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-17/ seventeenth Westlicht Auction], in May 2010.</ref> |
* [[Vesta]] | * [[Vesta]] | ||
* Videx | * Videx | ||
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* Yale No. 2 | * Yale No. 2 | ||
* Yale Stereo | * Yale Stereo | ||
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==Links== | ==Links== | ||
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* [http://www.butkus.org/chinon/adams/adams_reflex/adams_reflex.htm The Adams Reflex Camera by Adams & Co. 1901] user manual in PDF version at [http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ Butkus.org] | * [http://www.butkus.org/chinon/adams/adams_reflex/adams_reflex.htm The Adams Reflex Camera by Adams & Co. 1901] user manual in PDF version at [http://www.butkus.org/chinon/ Butkus.org] | ||
[[Category:Camera makers|Adams]] | [[Category:Camera makers|Adams]] | ||
[[Category:UK|Adams]] | [[Category:UK|Adams]] | ||
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| Advertisement for the Adams Minex from Photograms of the Year 1932 (Tropical model illustrated) image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
A. Adams & Co. was a camera maker based in Charing Cross Road, London. It made a wide range of cameras, from the handsome clam-shell folder Natti to the big wooden Studio Minex. For the average amateur it made the Vesta and the Verto folders, and the Vaido plate cameras. Under the Minex name it offered a series of SLR cameras. The company made also customized cameras.
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| Adams actinometer image by Geoff Harrisson (Image rights) |
Cameras
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| Advertisement for the Studio Minex; a portrait camera with a reflex screen at the side. BJ Almanac, 1932. scanned by Nesster (Image rights) |
- Aidex
- Challenger
- Club
- De Luxe
- Hand Camera
- Hat Detective Camera
- Ideal
- Idento
- Minex[1][2][3]
- Folding Minex
- Tropical Folding Minex
- Natti
- Royal
- Studio Minex[4]
- Vaido
- Verto[5]
- Vesta
- Videx
- Yale No. 1
- Yale No. 2
- Yale Stereo
Notes
- ↑ Tropical Minex at the Science&Society picture library.
- ↑ 2½x3½-inch (6.5x9cm) Minex 'de luxe' in black-leather finish, with 136mm f/3.5 Ross Xpres, sold at the fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, in May 2009.
- ↑ 5x7-inch Tropical Minex with 26cm f/5.6 Krauss-Zeiss Tessar, sold at the 28th Westlicht Auction, in November 2015.
- ↑ Studio Minex camera with (sideways) reflex focusing, with 20-inch f/5.6 Aldis Triplet Anastimat, on mahogany studio stand, sold at the nineteenth Westlicht Auction, in May 2011.
- ↑ Verto with Ross f/5.6 (f/11) Combinable lens. The camera has a rotating front; the lens and shutter rotate on the standard for horizontal use; sold at the seventeenth Westlicht Auction, in May 2010.
Links
| British companies | ||
| Adams & Co. | Agilux | Aldis | APeM | Aptus | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beard | Beck | Benetfink | Billcliff | Boots | British Ferrotype | Butcher | Chapman | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dekko | De Vere | Dixons | Dollond | Elliott | Gandolfi | Gnome | Griffiths | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Johnson | Kentmere | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lejeune and Perken | Lizars | London & Paris Optic & Clock Company | Marion | Marlow | Meagher | MPP | Neville | Newman & Guardia | Pearson and Denham | Perken, Son and Company | Perken, Son & Rayment | Photopia | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Reynolds and Branson | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Sands & Hunter | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Underwood | United | Watkins | Watson | Wynne's Infallible | Wray |
- The Adams Reflex Camera by Adams & Co. 1901 user manual in PDF version at Butkus.org
