Ensign Selfix 420

With Epsilon shutter image by Steve Davies (Image rights)

The Ensign Selfix 420 was a folding camera sold by Ensign from 1946. It was fitted with an Ensar Anastigmat lens and took 120 film with the ability to expose either eight 6×9 or twelve 6×6 frames with the optional application of a mask. It is very similar to the Selfix 20 which it succeeded.

The Selfix 420 is not a rare camera but it is much less common than many better known folders.

Features

• Camera type: Pocket folding with viewfinder
• Shutter type: Epsilon or Prontor II (uncommon)
• Shutter speeds: T, B, 1/150s, 1/100s, 1/50s, 1/25s, 1/10s, 1/5s, 1/2s, 1s
• Lens: Ensar Anastigmat 105mm or 100mm (uncommon), f4.5
• Lens aperture range: f/4.5-f/22 in 6 discrete stops
• Lens focusing range: 3.5 feet, infinity
• Viewfinder: lens-mounted brilliant finder and folding glassless eye finder upon top-plate
• Film size: 120 roll medium format
• Negative size: 6×9cm; 8 exposures per roll, 6×6; 12 exposures per roll

Links

• Ensign Selfix 420 with Epsilon shutter and 105mm lens from http://www.flickr.com/people/stanbury/ on Flickr
• Ensign Selfix 420 with Prontor II shutter and 100mm lens from JESUS258 on Flickr

image by Howard Stanbury (Image rights)