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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. | '''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. | 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. | ||
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* [[Schneider]] lenses<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4912627434/in/pool-camerawiki Hunter ad for Schneider lenses, 1932]</ref> | * [[Schneider]] lenses<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4912627434/in/pool-camerawiki Hunter ad for Schneider lenses, 1932]</ref> | ||
{{British companies}} | {{British companies}} | ||
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<references /> | <references /> | ||
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| − | * [ | + | * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309154913/http://www.marriottworld.com/stock_pics/olderpics/gilbert.htm Gilbert on Marriottworld] (archived) |
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* [http://www.vieilalbum.com/GilbertUS.htm Gilbert on The Old Album] | * [http://www.vieilalbum.com/GilbertUS.htm Gilbert on The Old Album] | ||
* [http://www.wheeldon.plus.com/rollei.htm Hunter's Rollei catalogue, 1961] | * [http://www.wheeldon.plus.com/rollei.htm Hunter's Rollei catalogue, 1961] | ||
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** [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=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.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) | ||
[[Category: Distributors|Hunter, R. F.]] | [[Category: Distributors|Hunter, R. F.]] | ||
[[Category: UK|Hunter, R. F.]] | [[Category: UK|Hunter, R. F.]] | ||
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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 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 Rolleiflexes in the 1950s-60s.
Cameras & Lenses supplied
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| Schneider lens ad by R.F. Hunter from British Journal Photographic Almanac 1932 image by Dirk HR Spennemann (Image rights) |
- Celfix cine
- Ebner[1]
- Franka
- Gilbert box, c.1953[2]
- Gugo viewfinder camera (made by Goldammer, c.1953)[3]
- Hunter 35 (a rebadged Steinette, made by Steiner, c.1957)
- Hunter 35 R (a Hunter 35 with a rangefinder)
- Hunter cine (Bingoscope)
- Purma Speed, Purma Special, Purma Plus
- Rolleiflex
- Rolloroy (a rebadged Nagel Pupille, 1930)
| British companies | ||
| Adams & Co. | Agilux | Aldis | APeM | Aptus | Artima | Barnet Ensign | Beard | Beck | Benetfink | Billcliff | Boots | British Ferrotype | Butcher | Chapman | Cooke | Corfield | Coronet | Dallmeyer | Dekko | De Vere | Dixons | Dollond | Elliott | Gandolfi | Gnome | Griffiths | G. Hare | Houghtons | Houghton-Butcher | Hunter | Ilford | Jackson | Johnson | Kentmere | Kershaw-Soho | Kodak Ltd. | Lancaster | Lejeune and Perken | Lizars | London & Paris Optic & Clock Company | Marion | Marlow | Meagher | MPP | Neville | Newman & Guardia | Pearson and Denham | Perken, Son and Company | Perken, Son & Rayment | Photopia | Purma | Reid & Sigrist | Reynolds and Branson | Ross | Ross Ensign | Sanderson | Sands & Hunter | Shackman | Shew | Soho | Standard Cameras Ltd | Taylor-Hobson | Thornton-Pickard | Underwood | United | Watkins | Watson | Wynne's Infallible | Wray |
Notes
Links
- Gilbert on Marriottworld (archived)
- Gilbert on The Old Album
- Hunter's Rollei catalogue, 1961
- on HistoryWorld.com
- Cameras at www.collection-appareils.fr (in French)
