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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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=== Cameras & Lenses supplied ===
 
=== Cameras & Lenses supplied ===
 
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|image_text= [[Schneider]] lens ad by  R.F. Hunter<br />from ''British Journal Photographic Almanac 1932''<br /><small>photo by heritagefutures {{with permission}}</small>
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|image_text= [[Schneider]] lens ad by  R.F. Hunter<br />from ''British Journal Photographic Almanac 1932''
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*  Celfix cine
 
*  Celfix cine
* [[Ebner]]<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4911979751/in/pool-camerapedia 1938 Hunter ad for Ebner]</ref>
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* [[Ebner]]<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4911979751/in/pool-camerawiki 1938 Hunter ad for Ebner]</ref>
 
* [[Franka]]
 
* [[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>
 
* [[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>
 
*  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]] (a rebadged Steinette, made by [[Steiner]], c.1957)
*   Hunter 35 R (a Hunter 35 with a [[rangefinder (device)|rangefinder]])
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* [[Hunter 35 | Hunter 35 R]] (a Hunter 35 with a [[rangefinder (device)|rangefinder]])
 
*  Hunter cine (Bingoscope)
 
*  Hunter cine (Bingoscope)
 
* [[Purma|  Purma Speed, Purma Special, Purma Plus]]
 
* [[Purma|  Purma Speed, Purma Special, Purma Plus]]
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*  Rolloroy (a rebadged [[Nagel Pupille]], 1930)
 
*  Rolloroy (a rebadged [[Nagel Pupille]], 1930)
  
* [[Schneider]] lenses<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4912627434/in/pool-camerapedia Hunter ad for Schneider lenses, 1932]</ref>
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* [[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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==Notes==
 
<references />
 
<references />
=== Links ===
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== Links ==
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeH_imagettes.php#Hunter Cameras] at www.collection-appareils.fr
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160309154913/http://www.marriottworld.com/stock_pics/olderpics/gilbert.htm Gilbert on Marriottworld] (archived)
* [http://www.marriottworld.com/stock_pics/olderpics/gilbert.htm Gilbert on Marriottworld]
 
 
* [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]
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* [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.]]

Latest revision as of 06:32, 20 August 2021

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

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

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