Craftmen’s Guild
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Craftmen’s Guild of Hollywood (CA) was a manufacturer of photographic viewers, but also briefly manufactured a camera.
Cameras
- Classic 35. Half-frame camera with fixed-focus 32mm (f4.5-22) lens.Available in satin & black or leather finishes. [1]
Photographic Viewers
All viewers are made of plastic.
- Guild 35 viewer[2]
- Guild Lite [2]
- Mini Master [2]
- Mini-Vuer [sic] [3]
- Realist stereo viewer [4]
- Tri-Scope viewer. Plastic stereo viewer for story cards (33mm x 90mm) [4]
- Twinlenz [sic] (1947). Allows for 2-inch x 2-inch slides[2][5]
- Vistar slide viewers
Notes
- ↑ Mentioned in Lahue, Kalton C. & Bailey, Joseph A. (1972) Glass, brass, & chrome: the American 35mm miniature camera. Oklahoma City: University of Oklahoma Press. p.298.—See also Half-frame cameras (Joe McGloin).
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Listed on shop box, depicted at Craftsmen's Guild
- ↑ Seen in various on-line auctions.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Craftsmen's Guild at www.viewmaster.co.uk
- ↑ Popular Science September 1947, p. 97
- ↑ Seen in various on-line auctions.
- ↑ See image
