Ilford Envoy
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The Ilford Envoy was an slightly unusual Bakelite box[1] camera sold by Ilford from c.1953-1960. The Envoy was made for Ilford by Photo Developments Ltd in Birmingham. The camera featured a curved film plane, which compensated for some of the deficiencies of the cheap lens, and could take both 620 and 120 film spools.
There were three style revisions.
The simple, single-speed shutter was synchronised for flash.
There was a similarly named camera, the Envoy Wide Angle, made by the same Birmingham company - specially for wide-angle photography. This was a much more sophisticated device.
- Manufacturer: Photo Developments Ltd, for Ilford
- In production: c.1953-1960
- Lens: Optomax, focussing 4-8ft ("Faces") and distant ("Places")
- Film: 120 or 620, eight 6x9cm frames
- ↑ It says "Box Camera" on the box, see Maurice Fisher's site
