Photo-Magic

Photo-Magic image by Graustark (Image rights)

The Photo-Magic is a bakelite camera for 4×6.5cm exposures on 127 film, made in black or wine. It was very simple, around the meniscus lens it was only marked Photo-Magic and No 4065; always the same! It had a time and instant shutter. On some, it was marked P and I, some other were marked T and I and had British made inside the back. There was also an identical Photo-Miami camera.

It looks a little like the original MIOM camera, and also quite like a small version of the Wembley Sports without the screw-out lens barrel. Vial dates it from 1948, and McKeown lists it under the Boumsell entry, while noting that Boumsell was only a distributor. It is discussed in more detail by Sylvain Halgand on his Photo-Magic page.

Bibliography

• Vial, Bernard. Histoire des appareils français. Période 1940–1960. Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1980, re-impressed in 1991. ISBN 2-86941-156-1.

Links

• Photo Magic, Photo Magic, Photo-Miami on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand
• Photo-Magic at Clicclac