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*[https://www.butkus.org/chinon/ansco/ansco_readyflash/ansco_readyflash.htm Ansco Readyflash user manual] at [https://www.butkus.org/chinon/ Butkus.org]
 
*[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=550 Ansco Readyflash] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
 
*[http://www.collection-appareils.fr/x/html/page_standard.php?id_appareil=550 Ansco Readyflash] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.fr] by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
  

Latest revision as of 05:53, 18 August 2021

The Ansco Readyflash is a simple viewfinder-type camera with a fixed-focus lens, fixed aperture and single-speed shutter. Made circa 1953, it takes 620 film, giving 8 2¼" x 3¼" exposures on a roll.

Its big feature was that it was flash-ready (hence the name); the top of the lens panel has two flash terminals, synched to the shutter, to attach to a flashbulb holder. The body is a basic sheet-metal box, with removable lid, and plastic fittings carrying the lens, shutter and viewfinder. It seems to have been a replacement for the Ansco Pioneer, discontinued at about the same time.

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