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== Bibliography ==
 
== Bibliography ==
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* ''The British Camera 1840-1960 The Jim Barron Collection'', Christies auction catalogue
 
* ''The British Camera 1840-1960 The Jim Barron Collection'', Christies auction catalogue
* ''British Camera Makers'', N. Channing & M. Dunn, ed. Parkland Designs
 
  
 
== Links ==
 
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* [http://photantik.ifrance.com/page12bis/page12bis.htm A Dallmeyer Snapshot at photantik]
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* Dallmeyer Snapshot among [http://photantik.ifrance.com/page12bis/page12bis.htm folding cameras] at [http://photantik.ifrance.com/ photantik]
  
 
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[[Category: 6x9 strut folding]]

Revision as of 17:18, 18 May 2008

The Dallmeyer Snapshot was a strut folding camera taking 2 1/4 × 3 1/4" (6×9) exposures. It was a metal camera with simple settings: Distant, Medium and Near for focusing, Bright and Dull for aperture, Fast, Slow and Time for speed (1/40, 1/20 and T). There was a brilliant finder in the front plate, normally for vertical pictures, but it could be oriented to take horizontal shots. The lens was a Dallmeyer Anastigmat f/6 (no focal length indicated).

The first model, presented in 1929, used film packs and had a folding frame finder in addition to the brilliant finder. A Dallmeyer Snapshot De Luxe appeared the following year. It was marked De Luxe and had leather (or leatherette?) covering instead of black paint. Apart from this, no difference is visible.

In 1931 a rollfilm model appeared, taking 120 film. It existed both in normal and De Luxe versions. There was no folding frame finder, but there was a folding leg to hold it vertically.

The Snapshot was sold until well into the 1930s.

Channing and Dunn say that the film pack model was made by Dallmeyer itself and the rollfilm model was made by Houghton-Butcher and marked as such. Other sources, including McKeown, say that all the Snapshot were made by Houghton-Butcher.

Bibliography

  • Channing, Norman and Dunn, Mike. British Camera Makers. An A-Z Guide to Companies and Products. London : Parkland Designs, 1996. ISBN 0-9524630-0-8
  • The British Camera 1840-1960 The Jim Barron Collection, Christies auction catalogue

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