QRS Kamra
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QRS camera (winder missing) image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
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The de Vry Still Camera Model K-1, or Q.R.S. Kamra is a very early 35mm camera made by the De Vry company in Chicago, possibly in 1928. It is also an early plastic camera. The brick-like body was made of mottled brown Bakelite-like plastic, with all the controls on one side. The flat back was removable for film loading, the film winding between special film cassettes.
The camera had a clockwork timer, and could shoot 40 24x32mm frames in 20 seconds.
Links/Sources
- QRS Kamra in the PowerHouse Museum
- McKeown lists this (p.369 of 1996 edition)
- QRS Kamra, page formerly at the Elisabetta & L. David Tomei collection (archive copy with no pictures, dated 27 February 2009, at Internet Archive
- DeVry Still Camera instruction manual DeVry K-1 QRS