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'''R.F. Hunter Ltd.''' were an importing and distribution company based at 51 Gray's Inn Road, and previously at 40 Doughty St. in Central London, England - who included various cameras, cine films and slide strips in their products.
They seemed to specialise in quite odd-ball cameras, such as the gravity-control shuttered [[Purma]] and the stainless-steel fronted [[Gilbert|Gilbert box]] camera with rotating viewfinder.

In the early 1930s, Hunter's distributed '''Celfix''' cine projectors and cameras and Hunter-rebadged '''Bingoscope''' cine projectors, and supplied films and film strips for these.

Hunter's also supplied [[Franka]] cameras and [[Rolleiflex]]es in the 1950s-60s.

=== Cameras & Lenses supplied ===
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*   Celfix cine
* [[Ebner]]<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4911979751/in/pool-camerawiki 1938 Hunter ad for Ebner]</ref>
* [[Franka]]
* [[Gilbert]] box, c.1953<ref>[http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=942&offset=0&sort=0&l1=Photography&l2= 1953 Hunter ad for Gilbert]</ref>
*   Gugo viewfinder camera (made by [[Goldammer]], c.1953)<ref>[http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=1093&offset=0&sort=0&l1=Photography&l2= 1953 Hunter ad for Gugo]</ref>
* [[Hunter 35]] (a rebadged Steinette, made by [[Steiner]], c.1957)
* [[Hunter 35 | Hunter 35 R]] (a Hunter 35 with a [[rangefinder (device)|rangefinder]])
*   Hunter cine (Bingoscope)
* [[Purma|  Purma Speed, Purma Special, Purma Plus]]
* [[Rolleiflex]]
*   Rolloroy (a rebadged [[Nagel Pupille]], 1930)

* [[Schneider]] lenses<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4912627434/in/pool-camerawiki Hunter ad for Schneider lenses, 1932]</ref>
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==Notes==
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== Links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309154913/http://www.marriottworld.com/stock_pics/olderpics/gilbert.htm Gilbert on Marriottworld] (archived)
* [http://www.vieilalbum.com/GilbertUS.htm Gilbert on The Old Album]
* [http://www.wheeldon.plus.com/rollei.htm Hunter's Rollei catalogue, 1961]
*  on [http://www.historyworld.co.uk HistoryWorld.com]
** [http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=1093&offset=0&sort=0&l1=Photography&l2= 1953 Gugo camera advert]
** [http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=942&offset=0&sort=0&l1=Photography&l2= 1953 Gilbert advert]
** [http://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=293&offset=0&sort=0&l1=Photography&l2= 1936 Purma Speed advert]
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeH_imagettes.php#Hunter Cameras] at www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)

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