Vasconcellos
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D.F. Vasconcellos S.A. (owned by Decio Fernandes de Vasconcellos) was a camera maker in São Paolo, Brazil.[1] The company made cheap and simple cameras. Vasconcellos also produced an 'Optical Set'; a kit of optical components and mountings to allow students to study optics, and construct microscopes, telescopes etc. by assembling the elements.[2]
Cameras
- Bieka (metal-bodied 6x9 cm box camera, as pictured here)[1][3]
- Kapsa (plastic-bodied box camera for 6x9 or 4x6 cm on 120 or 620 film)[1]
- Tuka (plastic camera for 127 film. McKeown compares it to the Ansco Cadet II and III, and suggests Vasconcellos may have acquired the Ansco moulds)[1][3]
- Flika (plastic camera for 6x9 or 4.5x6 cm on 120 film)
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 McKeown, James M. and Joan C. McKeown's Price Guide to Antique and Classic Cameras, 12th Edition, 2005-2006. USA, Centennial Photo Service, 2004. ISBN 0-931838-40-1 (hardcover). ISBN 0-931838-41-X (softcover). p944-5.
- ↑ US Patent 3112570 of 1963, Optical Set, at Espacenet, the patent search facility of the European Patent Office.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Cameras Antigas shows a picture of a Bieka (19th camera from the top, in a very long page, with bright yellow leatherette - perhaps re-covered) and a Tuka (41st picture from the top).
