Readyflash
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Ansco Readyflash image by Rick Soloway (Image rights) |
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.
Links
- Ansco Readyflash user manual at Butkus.org
- Ansco Readyflash on www.collection-appareils.fr by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
Readyflash with its eponymous accessory image by spiggycat (Image rights) |
Boxed outfit image by eBayer m48a (Image rights) |