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 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 and the color may be gray or black with red accents. Some sources state[2][3] that the optics, shutter, and film-holder are taken from a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera; in any case 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
- ↑ Jordon Klein biography at International Legends of Diving
- ↑ Sid Macken column "The Submarine Lens: The Point and Shoots" in The Journal of Diving History, Winter 2011 (Volume 19 Issue 1, Number 66), pgs. 40–41.
