Fowell Saeta

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The Saeta (Spanish meaning dart or arrow) is a plastic-bodied box camera for 4x6cm exposures on 127 film, made by the Madrid company Fowell in the mid-1950s. The body is made from a brown-black plastic (apparently bakelite), and is moulded with an attempt at streamline moderne styling. The film runs vertically through the camera (advanced by a winding knob on the right, and a red window), so the native orientation of the picture is vertical. There is a Galilean viewfinder at the top. It has an 'I' and 'B' shutter, and the release knob is threaded to accept a cable release. There is a tripod mount in the base. The camera has a carrying handle of synthetic rubber across the top from left to right.

Spanish collector's blog Las Cámeras de Fernando shows two examples of the camera, one with and one without an aluminium front plate surrounding the lens and finder.

Some of Fowell's cameras are copies of foreign models. It is not clear what camera, if any, the Saeta is coppied from. It is broadly like the Bilora Boy, but somewhat more square and modern in style.