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The '''Baby Speed Reflex''' is a [[SLR|single-lens reflex]] camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made by [[Newman & Guardia]] for [[Dallmeyer]] of London, in the mid-1920s.<ref name=EP>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C437.html Baby Speed Reflex] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography].</ref> Although Dallmeyer did not make the camera, it has Dallmeyer's 4 inch f/2.9 Pentac lens. | The '''Baby Speed Reflex''' is a [[SLR|single-lens reflex]] camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made by [[Newman & Guardia]] for [[Dallmeyer]] of London, in the mid-1920s.<ref name=EP>[http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/site/entry_C437.html Baby Speed Reflex] at [http://www.earlyphotography.co.uk/index.html Early Photography].</ref> Although Dallmeyer did not make the camera, it has Dallmeyer's 4 inch f/2.9 Pentac lens. | ||
The camera has a fairly typical design for a box-form reflex camera of the time. It is wooden-bodied, with leather covering. There is a ground-glass focusing screen in the top of the camera body, for full-frame reflex focusing, and a folding leather focusing hood over this screen. A ground-glass screen can also be attached at the rear of the camera, to use it as a view camera. | The camera has a fairly typical design for a box-form reflex camera of the time. It is wooden-bodied, with leather covering. There is a ground-glass focusing screen in the top of the camera body, for full-frame reflex focusing, and a folding leather focusing hood over this screen. A ground-glass screen can also be attached at the rear of the camera, to use it as a view camera. | ||
| − | It has Newman and | + | It has Newman and Guardia's focal-plane shutter, giving speeds 1/10 - 1/800 second, plus 'B' and 'T'. As is usual on such cameras, the shutter release lever raises the mirror. |
| − | The camera has rack-and-pinion focusing, moving the lens board out on the front on a bellows. Unusually, the focusing rack is not on a pair of rails each side of the lens board (as on, for example, the [[Ensign Reflex]]) but is moulded into the bottom of a bed below the bellows.<ref name=West>[ | + | The camera has rack-and-pinion focusing, moving the lens board out on the front on a bellows. Unusually, the focusing rack is not on a pair of rails each side of the lens board (as on, for example, the [[Ensign Reflex]]) but is moulded into the bottom of a bed below the bellows.<ref name=West>[https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Dallmeyer-Soho-Reflex-Camera/AI-15-18808 Baby Speed Reflex] sold at the [https://www.leitz-auction.com/en/Cameras/Past-Auctions/Auction-15/ fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction], on 23 May 2009.</ref> The notes at ''Early Photography'' state that the camera has a rising front,<ref name=EP /> but this facility cannot be seen in the photographs of any of the cited examples. |
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* [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4028296 Baby Speed Reflex] sold in December 2002 (lot 71 of sale 9516) by [http://www.christies.com Christie's] in London. | * [http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=4028296 Baby Speed Reflex] sold in December 2002 (lot 71 of sale 9516) by [http://www.christies.com Christie's] in London. | ||
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[[Category: 4.5x6 plate SLR]] | [[Category: 4.5x6 plate SLR]] | ||
[[Category: B|Baby Speed Reflex]] | [[Category: B|Baby Speed Reflex]] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:11, 30 January 2024
The Baby Speed Reflex is a single-lens reflex camera for 4.5x6 cm plates, made by Newman & Guardia for Dallmeyer of London, in the mid-1920s.[1] Although Dallmeyer did not make the camera, it has Dallmeyer's 4 inch f/2.9 Pentac lens.
The camera has a fairly typical design for a box-form reflex camera of the time. It is wooden-bodied, with leather covering. There is a ground-glass focusing screen in the top of the camera body, for full-frame reflex focusing, and a folding leather focusing hood over this screen. A ground-glass screen can also be attached at the rear of the camera, to use it as a view camera.
It has Newman and Guardia's focal-plane shutter, giving speeds 1/10 - 1/800 second, plus 'B' and 'T'. As is usual on such cameras, the shutter release lever raises the mirror.
The camera has rack-and-pinion focusing, moving the lens board out on the front on a bellows. Unusually, the focusing rack is not on a pair of rails each side of the lens board (as on, for example, the Ensign Reflex) but is moulded into the bottom of a bed below the bellows.[2] The notes at Early Photography state that the camera has a rising front,[1] but this facility cannot be seen in the photographs of any of the cited examples.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Baby Speed Reflex at Early Photography.
- ↑ Baby Speed Reflex sold at the fifteenth Westlicht Photographica Auction, on 23 May 2009.
Links
- Baby Speed Reflex sold in December 2002 (lot 71 of sale 9516) by Christie's in London.
