Mako Shark
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The Mako Shark is a basic underwater camera designed in the 1950s by Jordan Klein[1] and later marketed by fitness- and dive-equipment supplier Healthways. The body is made from a bakelite-like plastic, and the squat cylindrical shape allows the back to be screwed into place with a waterproof seal.
Versions exist with or without front-panel contacts for flash sync[2] and the color may be gray or black, with red accents. The camera's optics, shutter, and film-holder are taken from a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera[3] meaning the Mako Shark is also a fixed focus camera using 620 film.
This camera design was reworked into the Nemrod Siluro, which was manufactured in the 1960s in Spain.
Notes
- ↑ US Patent 2,865,271 via Google Patents
- ↑ Catalog No. 1950 is the flash-equipped version; while No. 1951 lacks the flash contacts.
- ↑ Photographs from eBay auction #161819189050, among others online, confirm this
Links
- Design Patent 177,738 "Combined waterproof housing and camera" Application November 2, 1955, from Google Patents
- Period advertising for Mako Shark camera from SkinDivingHistory.com
- Jordon Klein biography at International Legends of Diving
- Sid Macken column "The Submarine Lens: The Point and Shoots," pages 40–41 in The Journal of Diving History, Winter 2011 (Volume 19 Issue 1, Number 66).
