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* [http://glangl1.free.fr/Liste%20Pontiac.html The Pontiac page at Gérard Langlois site] | * [http://glangl1.free.fr/Liste%20Pontiac.html The Pontiac page at Gérard Langlois site] | ||
* [http://stereocollection.pagesperso-orange.fr/appareilspost39/Pontiac.htm Pontiac cameras including the Baby Lynx] at [http://stereocollection.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm Stereocollection] | * [http://stereocollection.pagesperso-orange.fr/appareilspost39/Pontiac.htm Pontiac cameras including the Baby Lynx] at [http://stereocollection.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm Stereocollection] | ||
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Pontiac Baby Lynx image by Adrian Gee (Image rights) |
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The Baby Lynx is a 35mm viewfinder camera launched by the French maker Pontiac in 1948[1] The camera body is cast from aluminium (McKeown notes that aluminium was one material not in short supply in France during the War[2]), with leatherette covering. It has a fixed lens, usually a Berthiot Flor 50 mm f/3.5 or f/2.8 with front-cell focusing, and a Prontor II leaf shutter with speeds to 1/200 or 1/250 second,[3] or a Prontor S to 1/300 second. The very last bodies have the Flor 50/3.5 on an Atos 2 shutter to 1/250 with Pontiac Baby Lynx written on the shutter, and brown leather covering. One example has been observed at an eBay auction with a Boyer Saphir 50/3.5 and a Prontor II shutter with speeds 1 - 1/200 second. This lens variant is also mentioned by P-H Pont. A cheaper variant called Baby Standard is reported, with a Roussel Trylor 50/3.9 three-element lens on a Pronto shutter from 1/25 to 1/200.
The lens tube collapses into the camera body when not in use. The camera was the least well-specified and least expensive of the Lynx and Super Lynx cameras; both the Lynx II (also of 1948) and the Super Lynx have a focal-plane shutter.
The Baby Lynx has a reverse-Galilean viewfinder built into the top housing. Also on the top is a frame counter, separate from the winding knob; advancing the film does not cock the shutter.
Production of the camera moved to Morocco in 1951 and stopped in 1954 when the Pontiac company ceased trading.
1948-54 Pontiac Baby Lynx image by Vagn Sloth-Madsen (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Both McKeown and Vial say 1950, but a Pontiac advertisement dated 1948, previously visible at Stereocollection, shows the Baby Lynx.
- ↑ McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p796.
- ↑ Baby Lynx with f/3.5 Flor and Prontor II shutter to 1/200 second, and Baby Lynx with f/3.5 Flor and Prontor II shutter to 1/250 second], sold by Swedish auctioneer LP Foto Auktioner in their Auction 29 in March 2008.
Bibliography
- Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1.
- Pontiac Lynx, Super Lynx, Baby Lynx, Fotofiche 15, Patrice-Hervé Pont, Ed Fotosaga