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'''R.F. Hunter Ltd.''' were a importing and distribution company based at 51 Gray's Inn Road in Central London, England - who included various cameras in their products. | '''R.F. Hunter Ltd.''' were a importing and distribution company based at 51 Gray's Inn Road in Central London, England - who included various cameras in their products. | ||
They seemed to specialise in quite odd-ball cameras, such as the gravity-shuttered [[Purma]] and the stainless-steel fronted Gilbert box camera with rotating viewfinder. | They seemed to specialise in quite odd-ball cameras, such as the gravity-shuttered [[Purma]] and the stainless-steel fronted Gilbert box camera with rotating viewfinder. | ||
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Hunter's also supplied [[Franka]] cameras and [[Rolleiflex]]es in the 1950s-60s. | Hunter's also supplied [[Franka]] cameras and [[Rolleiflex]]es in the 1950s-60s. | ||
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| + | * [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/liste5_imagettes.php#Hunter Cameras] at www.collection-appareils.fr | ||
* [http://www.marriottworld.com/stock_pics/olderpics/gilbert.htm Gilbert on Marriottworld] | * [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] | ||
Revision as of 22:54, 1 July 2008
R.F. Hunter Ltd. were a importing and distribution company based at 51 Gray's Inn Road in Central London, England - who included various cameras in their products. They seemed to specialise in quite odd-ball cameras, such as the gravity-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.
Hunter's also supplied Franka cameras and Rolleiflexes in the 1950s-60s.
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Cameras supplied
- Celfix cine
- Franka
- Gilbert box, c.1953
- Gugo viewfinder camera (made by Goldammer, c.1953)
- 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)
