Standard Cameras Ltd

Synchronised Model Metal body on plastic/metal frame. Note viewfinder covers and snaps attaching back, very like the Coronet Ambassador & Captain image by AWCam (Image rights)

Colour Filter Model Cardboard body on metal frame. Note viewfinder covers. image by AWCam (Image rights)

Conway image by Nicholas Gray (Image rights)

Standard Cameras Limited was a manufacturer based in Birmingham, England. The company made a cheap camera range branded Conway. Most (if not all?) of these Conway Cameras took 6x9cm images on 120 film.

The cameras are very similar to (and have interchangeable parts with) some of the Coronet products. The box cameras have folding covers on the viewfinders (which provided some shade when in use), just like the Coronets. Standard and Coronet certainly had close links, and may have been the same company.

Standard Cameras traded between 1931 and 1955.

Box Cameras

• Conway
• Conway Camera - Colour-Filter Model
• Conway Camera - De Luxe Model
• Conway Camera - Popular Model
• Conway Camera - Synchronised Model
• Conway Super Flash
• Coronet Conway
• Kenilworth
• Vernak; the Colour-filter Conway, re-badged for the short-lived Vernak Film Company

Stereo Cameras

• Robin Hood

Robin Hood image by John Kratz (Image rights)

Links

• Conway instruction manual on Jonathan's blog
• Standard / Conway on www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand (in French)