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− | * Vernak; the Colour-filter Conway, re-badged for the short-lived Vernak Film Company<ref>[http://www.woodandbrass.co.uk/detail.php?cat_num=0333 Vernak camera] at [http://www.woodandbrass.co.uk/index.php Wood and Brass]</ref> | + | * Vernak; the Colour-filter Conway, re-badged for the short-lived Vernak Film Company<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20230519222546/http://www.woodandbrass.co.uk/detail.php?cat_num=0333 Vernak camera] (archived) at [http://www.woodandbrass.co.uk/index.php Wood and Brass]</ref> |
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+ | * [https://jonathangazeley.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/coronet-conway-manual.pdf Conway instruction manual] on [https://jonathangazeley.com/ Jonathan's blog] | ||
* [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeS_imagettes.php#Standard Standard / Conway] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.com] by Sylvain Halgand (in French) | * [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/listeS_imagettes.php#Standard Standard / Conway] on [http://www.collection-appareils.fr/general/html/francais.php www.collection-appareils.com] by Sylvain Halgand (in French) | ||
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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[1], and may have been the same company.
Standard Cameras traded between 1931 and 1955.
Contents
Box Cameras
- Conway
- Conway Camera - Colour-Filter Model[2]
- 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[3]
Stereo Cameras
- Robin Hood
Robin Hood image by John Kratz (Image rights) |
Notes
- ↑ Coronet/Conway box cameras at OZCamera.com
- ↑ The colour filter referred to is a green filter, mounted in a sliding tab. It is nothing to do with colour photography: it serves to make different colours render into grey tones more naturalistically, and also improves rendition of clouds to some extent, like the yellow filter similarly mounted in many box cameras. See the manual linked below.
- ↑ Vernak camera (archived) at Wood and Brass
Links
- Conway instruction manual on Jonathan's blog
- Standard / Conway on www.collection-appareils.com by Sylvain Halgand (in French)
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