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== Links == | == Links == | ||
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190709131843fw_/http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/steiner1.htm Steinette, Hunter 35 RF and Brelland] on [https://web.archive.org/web/20191002075926/http://ukcamera.com:80/ UKCamera.com (archived)] | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20190709131843fw_/http://www.ukcamera.com/classic_cameras/steiner1.htm Steinette, Hunter 35 RF and Brelland] on [https://web.archive.org/web/20191002075926/http://ukcamera.com:80/ UKCamera.com (archived)] | ||
+ | *[https://oldcamera.blog/2021/04/11/hunter-35/ Hunter 35 review] at [https://oldcamera.blog/ John Margetts's Oldcamera.blog] | ||
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Latest revision as of 05:05, 17 August 2022
Hunter 35 image by AWCam (Image rights) |
The Hunter 35 is a small, cheap 35mm viewfinder camera from c.1957, made in Germany for British distributor R. F. Hunter. It seems to be a "relative" of the Ideal Color 35; the case for the illustrated example is marked (and spelled) thus, and the body construction is similar. Both were designed by Josef Helmut Danzer. The Hunter 35 is a name variant of the Steinette, Brelland and Reporter - all made by Steiner[1]. A similar camera, with lever wind and the lens-block screws covered by leatherette, was called the Primo[2].
The winder is a knob with small satellite nodules, rotating 180° for each frame; used with the thumb, this works almost as well as a lever wind. There is no sprocket, the film is advanced purely by gripping on the take-up spool, and is spaced just by the rotation (and so frame spacing varies a little depending on how much film is on the spool). The exposure counter is positioned around the outside of the winding knob.
The base removes for loading; to load the film, the end is pushed into a slot on the take-up spool, then both spool and cassette put into the camera, carefully guiding the film in front of the pressure plate.
The back has a weather symbol exposure table for various film speeds.
- Lens: Steiner (Bayreuth) 45mm f3.5
- Shutter: speeds 1/25-1/200 + B with flash sync.
A variant called the Hunter 35 R was similar, but with an added uncoupled rangefinder.
Hunter 35R - 600 image by stowupland (Image rights) |
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Top/rear, showing exposure table |
Open, take-up spool removed |
Notes
- ↑ McKeown pages 410 and 903; however, McKeown says the Steinette is metal inside (the Hunter 35 seems not to be), and lists a slower (1/100) shutter.
- ↑ One on sale at Rocky Cameras (May 2012)