Bloc Métal 41

The Bloc Métal 41 was released in 1941 by the French maker Pontiac. It was a 6x9 folding camera with an aluminium body, and replaced the Pontiac Bakélite camera. It was a simple camera, with a brilliant finder only, and film advance by knob and red window. The aluminium body was not leather covered, but black painted, a characteristic of many later Pontiac cameras.

The lens and shutter combinations were:

Production stopped in 1948.

A Pontiac ad, visible for example here, shows a Bloc Métal 44, announced for 1948. It seems to be based on the body of the Bloc Métal 41, with at least a direct vision finder added.

Bibliography

• Histoire des appareils français, B. Vial, Ed. Maeght
• Pontiac Lynx, Super Lynx, Baby Lynx, Fotofiche 15, Patrice-Hervé Pont, Ed Fotosaga

Links

• Pontiac Bloc Métal 41 at Sylvain Halgand site
• The Pontiac page at Photoptic
• The Pontiac page at Gérard Langlois site
• The Pontiac page at ClicClac
• The Bloc Métal 41 at Amaryllis