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=== Cameras === | === Cameras === | ||
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Whitehouse Products Inc. was a camera manufacturer based in Brooklyn, New York, USA. It made simple plastic snapshot models, branded Beacon. Beacon models had collapsible lens panels; collapsing the panel disabled the shutter. Early models featured a B shutter setting, which was removed on later examples.
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Cameras
| Name | Dates | Film Format |
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| Beacon | 16 3x4cm on 127 | |
| Beacon II | 1947-55 | 16 3x4cm on 127 |
| Beacon Two-Twenty-Five | 1950-58 | 12 6x6 on 620 |
The Beacon cameras were usually black, but were available in various different colours.
Links
- Photos taken with a Beacon by Marcy Merrill
- Beacon II with Flash
- Beacon Two-Twenty-Five with flash on Flickr by Rick Solway
- Photo on Flickr by user midmophil
- (another) Photo on Flickr by user midmophil
- Beacon two-twenty-five, plus photos taken with it by DeanW
- Beacon Cameras at PBase.com
