Difference between revisions of "R. F. Hunter"
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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, 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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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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| − | === Cameras supplied === | + | === Cameras & Lenses supplied === |
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| + | |image_source= http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4912627434/in/pool-camerapedia | ||
| + | |image= http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/4912627434_641be32334_m.jpg | ||
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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> | ||
| + | }} | ||
* Celfix cine | * Celfix cine | ||
* [[Ebner]]<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4911979751/in/pool-camerapedia 1938 Hunter ad for Ebner]</ref> | * [[Ebner]]<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagefutures/4911979751/in/pool-camerapedia 1938 Hunter ad for Ebner]</ref> | ||
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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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Revision as of 16:14, 21 August 2010
R.F. Hunter Ltd. were a 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 photo by heritagefutures (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 |
