Pontiac Bakélite
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The Pontiac Bakélite was a 6x9 folding camera made by the French maker Pontiac from 1938 to 1941. As its name implied, the body was made of bakelite, usually dark brown with black bellows. It was originally developed by the German company Ebner in 1934, then ceded to the French maker Gallus, then to Pontiac. It had a brilliant finder. The variants were:
- f/11 Achromat lens (marked Objectif Achromatique) with Time & Pose shutter
- 105/6.3 Boyer Topaz with T-P shutter
- 105/4.5 Boyer Topaz, Berthiot, or Anastigmat Pontiac with MFAP shutter B-25-50-100
This later variant also existed with light brown bakelite body and brown bellows. Vial does not list the 105/6.3 variant, given in McKeown.
