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Ensign Selfix 20 (f/7.7 model)<br /><small>by Mario Groleau {{with permission}}</small>
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Ensign Selfix 420<br /><small>By Miguel Angel Jackson {{with permission}}</small>
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Revision as of 10:56, 29 December 2012


The Selfix was the name given to a long-running range of folding cameras made by Houghton-Butcher and its successors — part of an extensive series of Ensign cameras.


Description

The Selfix range had cameras designed for 6x4.5, 6×6 or 6×9cm exposures. At the time, photographers often distinguish between two series of Selfix models: the pre-1940 and the (then called) "modern" series.

Each of these series contains three main models for the different picture sizes, and is fitted, in the case of the pre-1940 series, with a whole range of different lenses and shutters. The basic design and manipulation is similar throughout, though the mechanical details of the modern series are, of course, much more up-to-date[1].

Some of the Selfixes were dual-format cameras, allowing a frame size reduction by means of an accessory mask. These masks were hinged, a clever design that prevents it being lost unlike many other camera makers from that time, and cameras with this capability had the extra red window accommodating the different sizes.


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Notes

  1. Quoted from the Nov, 1955 "Selfix Camera Guide" from Focal Point, fourth edition, pp.3.


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