Adams & Co.
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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
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- The Adams Reflex Camera by Adams & Co. 1901 user manual in PDF version at Butkus.org
