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The '''Ilford Sportsman C Instant''' was a viewfinder camera for type No. 126 "Kodapak" cassette film. It was made by [[Dacora]] in West Germany for [[Ilford]]. The specialty of this camera is its non-focusable "Ciba Ilford Color Subitar" lens, with the name part '''Ciba'''. The camera was made around 1967, when Ilford was owned by the Swiss Ciba-Geigy group.
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The '''Ilford Sportsman C Instant''' was a viewfinder camera for type No. [[126 film|126 "Kodapak"]] cassette film. It was made by [[Dacora]] in West Germany for [[Ilford]]. The specialty of this camera is its non-focusable "Ciba Ilford Color Subitar" lens, with the name part '''Ciba'''. The camera was made around 1967, when Ilford was owned by the Swiss Ciba-Geigy group.
  
The camera has an optical bright-frame viewfinder, a symbol scale on the lens tube for setting shutter speed for sunny or cloudy conditions (1/90 or 1/30 sec.) , a flashcube socket, and a shutter release beside the lens tube like it was common in the 1960s. For flash firing it needed a 15V B154 battery.
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The camera has an optical bright-frame viewfinder, a symbol scale on the lens tube for setting shutter speed for sunny or cloudy conditions (1/90 or 1/30 sec.) , a [[flashcube]] socket, and a [[shutter release]] beside the lens tube like it was common in the 1960s. For flash firing it needed a 15V B154 battery.
  
 
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==Links==
 
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*[http://website.lineone.net/~mauricefisher/Sportsman%20126.html Sportsman C and other 126 Sportsman film cameras of Ilford] at Maurice Fisher's [http://website.lineone.net/~mauricefisher]
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* [http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Sportsman_Instant.html Sportsman C and other 126 Sportsman film cameras of Ilford] at Maurice Fisher's [http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/ Photographic Memorabilia]
  
 
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Revision as of 11:19, 3 April 2008

The Ilford Sportsman C Instant was a viewfinder camera for type No. 126 "Kodapak" cassette film. It was made by Dacora in West Germany for Ilford. The specialty of this camera is its non-focusable "Ciba Ilford Color Subitar" lens, with the name part Ciba. The camera was made around 1967, when Ilford was owned by the Swiss Ciba-Geigy group.

The camera has an optical bright-frame viewfinder, a symbol scale on the lens tube for setting shutter speed for sunny or cloudy conditions (1/90 or 1/30 sec.) , a flashcube socket, and a shutter release beside the lens tube like it was common in the 1960s. For flash firing it needed a 15V B154 battery.


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