Coronet Commander

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The Coronet Commander was a plastic viewfinder camera for 120 roll film made by Coronet in Birmingham, UK, circa 1950.

It was designed as an inexpensive snap shot camera, looking very like the Rapier mk.II. Although using 120 film, wide enough for 60mm high frames (as the Rapier takes), it was masked to take 24 x 36mm exposures - squeezing 24 photos onto each film. There were apparently two models, the original and later Commander 2, but the models appear to differ only in labelling.

It had sliders around the lens for aperture setting, which on the first model are marked as B&W and Colour, but on the Commander 2 are marked f/16 and f/8, and shutter speeds 1/50 and 1/100. The Commander 2 has a lens labeled as a 50mm Achromat f/8, which is presumably the same as on the original model. The shutter has flash synch and there is an accessory shoe on the top plate.


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