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'''Standard Cameras Ltd.''' were a manufacturer based in Birmingham, England. They made a cheap camera range branded '''Conway'''. Most (if not all?) of these Conway Cameras took 6x9cm or 6x6cm images on 120 film.
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The cameras were very similar to some of the [[Coronet|Coronet products]] - Standard certainly had close links, and may have been the same company (see link to [http://www.madeinbirmingham.org/coronet.htm MadeInBirmingham.org]. Standard Cameras Ltd. traded between 1931-1955<ref>from MadeInBirmingham.org</ref>.
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|image_text= Synchronised Model<br>Metal body on plastic/metal frame.<br>Note viewfinder covers and<br>snaps attaching back,<br>very like the [[Coronet]] Ambassador & Captain
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|image_text= Colour Filter Model<br>Cardboard body on metal frame.<br>Note viewfinder covers.
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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.
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The cameras are very similar to (and have interchangeable parts with) some of the [[Coronet|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<REF>[http://www.ozcamera.com/coronet-box.html Coronet/Conway box cameras] at [http://www.ozcamera.com/index.html OZCamera.com]</REF>, and may have been the same company.
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Standard Cameras traded between 1931 and 1955.
  
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=== Box Cameras ===
 
=== Box Cameras ===
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* Conway Camera - Colour-Filter Model
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* Conway
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* Conway Camera - Colour-Filter Model<ref>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.</ref>
 
* Conway Camera - De Luxe Model
 
* Conway Camera - De Luxe Model
 
* Conway Camera - Popular Model
 
* Conway Camera - Popular Model
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* Conway Camera - Synchronised Model
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* [[Conway synchronised|Conway Camera - Synchronised Model]]
 
* Conway Super Flash
 
* Conway Super Flash
 
* Coronet Conway
 
* Coronet Conway
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* [[Kenilworth]]
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*  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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=== Stereo Cameras ===
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* Robin Hood
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==Notes==
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== Links ==
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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]
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* [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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=== Links ===
 
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* [http://www.madeinbirmingham.org/coronet.htm Coronet/Standard on MadeInBirmingham.org]
 
  
 
[[Category: Camera makers]]
 
[[Category: Camera makers]]
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[[Category: UK]]
 
[[Category: UK]]

Latest revision as of 16:53, 26 April 2024

2410398346_506bd6bdf6_m.jpg
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)
2409565861_34ea125b74_m.jpg
Colour Filter Model
Cardboard body on metal frame.
Note viewfinder covers.
image by AWCam (Image rights)
2395140429_05e6245809_m.jpg
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[1], and may have been the same company.

Standard Cameras traded between 1931 and 1955.


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
5145088607_ba4871b824_m.jpg
Robin Hood
image by John Kratz (Image rights)


Notes

  1. ↑ Coronet/Conway box cameras at OZCamera.com
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Vernak camera (archived) at Wood and Brass

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