Imperial Mark XII Flash
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| Imperial Mark XII Flash image by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson (Image rights) |
The Imperial Mark XII Flash (grey) was made in Chicago by Herbert George. It took 6x6 images on 620 film.
Like many Imperial cameras, it was made of plastic and available in several colors. Examples have been observed in red, light blue, a brighter blue, grey, black, tan and green. There were also variants with different face plates labelled as the Official Boy Scouts of America Camera, Official Girl Scouts Camera and Official Brownie Scouts Camera.
The design is very basic, having a fixed-focus, one shutter speed and a single aperture, although it was -of course - available with a flash unit. It uses a telescoping viewfinder and has a handy wrist strap rivited to the side of the camera's body.
Various Colors
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| Official Girl Scout variant image by Valt3r Rav3ra (Image rights) |
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| Black image by Valt3r Rav3ra (Image rights) |
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| Back, Grey image by Mario Groleau |
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| Light Blue image by Eduardo Urdangaray (Image rights) |
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| Imperial Mark XII Flash in Red image by Inspiredphotos |
Links
- Red example on Tanya Clark's site
- Blue example on Moominsean's Blog
- Blue example on bglasgow's flickr page
- "red" example (faded?) on Alain Laflamme and Diane Girouard's C@mer@ Collection
- Green example & text in The Toycam Handbook (various authors) on Google Books.
- Mark XII Flash on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
